1298
Total Extractions
715
Speaker Turns
1392
Unique Entities
153
Unique Entity Types
787
Unique Relations
Anne Welsh
Digital humanities
FIELD
WAS_PREVIOUSLY_KNOWN_AS→
Computing in the Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"what we now think of as digital humanities? And what was then Computing in the Humanities"Evidence Source
Could you tell us a little bit about how you first got involved in what we now think of as digital humanities? And what was then Computing in the Humanities?
John Unsworth
North Carolina State University
INSTITUTION
IS_TYPE_OF→
technical university
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"being at a technical university"
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
PUBLISHED_BY→
The John Hopkins University Press
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"still published by The John Hopkins University Press"
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
IS_FIRST_OF_TYPE→
peer-reviewed electronic journal in the Humanities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"it was the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the Humanities"Evidence Source
I didn't mean to get into electronic publishing, it was sort of fiscal necessity and also being at a technical university, where there were people around who were interested in this kind of experimentation but it was Postmodern Culture, still published by The John Hopkins University Press, it's in its twenty-second year now, I think, currently edited by my brother-in-law and it was the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the Humanities.
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
HAS_WEB_START_DATE→
January 1994
TIME
Surface Form:
"our first issue that was designed for the web was in January 1994"Evidence Source
I think our first issue that was designed for the web was in January 1994.
John Unsworth
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
North Carolina State University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was a new faculty member at North Carolina State University"
John Unsworth
PERSON
TAUGHT_SUBJECT→
post-World War II American literature
FIELD
Surface Form:
"been hired to teach post-World War II American literature"Evidence Source
I was a new faculty member at North Carolina State University, and I'd been hired to teach post-World War II American literature.
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
DISTRIBUTED_VIA→
LISTSERV
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"retrieve articles from LISTSERV"
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
DISTRIBUTED_VIA→
FTP
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"put it up for FTP"
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
DISTRIBUTED_VIA→
Gopher
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"put it up on Gopher"
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
DISTRIBUTED_VIA→
World Wide Web
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"put the back issues up on the web"Evidence Source
So after that, we just sent out the table of contents with instructions for people on how to retrieve articles from LISTSERV and then later when FTP came along, we put it up for FTP and when Gopher came along and gave you a menu for FTP, we put it up on Gopher and when the web came along, we put the back issues up on the web and I think our first issue that was designed for the web was in January 1994.
Susan Nutter
PERSON
HEADS→
Libraries at North Carolina State University
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"is still head of the libraries at NC State"
Campus Computing Organization
DEPARTMENT
PART_OF→
North Carolina State University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"people in the Campus Computing Organization"Evidence Source
So, we consulted with a university librarian, a woman named Susan Nutter, who I think is still head of the libraries at NC State, she introduced us to people in the Campus Computing Organization, who introduced us to some brand new software that had just come out, called LISTSERV.
Boundary II
JOURNAL
IS_JOURNAL_IN_FIELD→
post-World War II American literature
FIELD
Surface Form:
"there was just one actually, called Boundary II"Evidence Source
There weren't really many journals, academic journals, in that area, there was just one actually, called Boundary II
John Unsworth
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"we decided to start a journal in that area"Evidence Source
There weren't really many journals, academic journals, in that area, there was just one actually, called Boundary II, and so with a couple of friends, one was a friend from graduate school, who also ended up on the same faculty a year later, we decided to start a journal in that area. NC State was in a budget crisis, public higher education always is as far as I can tell, so there was no money for printing and there was no money for mailing.
Anne Welsh
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John Unsworth
John Unsworth
PERSON
USED_HARDWARE→
Sanyo CPM machine
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"Sanyo CPM machine"
John Unsworth
PERSON
USED_SOFTWARE→
WordStar
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"with WordStar"
John Unsworth
PERSON
LEARNED_TECHNOLOGY→
BASIC
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"learned a little bit of BASIC"Evidence Source
So, I wrote it on a word processor — Sanyo CPM machine with WordStar — and I learned a little bit of BASIC, I would go in and edit the compiled code to change the messages on my splash screen.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
John Unsworth
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Virginia
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"graduate student at Virginia"
John Unsworth
PERSON
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
email
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"had started using email"Evidence Source
And I had started using email as a graduate student at Virginia and there weren't a lot of people to exchange email with, but that was kind of interesting.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
John Unsworth
PERSON
EDITED→
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"editing a journal as a junior faculty member"Evidence Source
Yeah, I thought it was interesting and it was pretty clearly against the advice that any sensible senior person would have given me, I mean beginning with editing a journal as a junior faculty member cause that's service, not research and putting your time into editing a journal that didn't get printed ...
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
John Unsworth
PERSON
READ→
Humanist
DISCUSSION_LIST
Surface Form:
"I was reading things in Humanist"Evidence Source
And, you know, I was reading things in Humanist also, but the people that I was meeting at conferences were pretty much other people involved in doing electronic journals in an academic context and that was a very small and heterogeneous group of people.
Paul Ginsberg
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
High Energy Physics Archive Project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"Paul Ginsberg from the High Energy Physics Archive Project"Evidence Source
We had a guy who had a journal in hospitality research, there was Paul Ginsberg from the High Energy Physics Archive Project — I think he still works on that, Stevan Harnad was at some of these conferences and people from completely different disciplinary backgrounds, who, you know, the only thing they had in common was that they were trying to do electronic publishing, electronic scholarly publishing.
Stevan Harnad
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
conferences on electronic journals organized by libraries
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"was at some of these conferences"Evidence Source
Well, mostly in that period from '90 to about '93, when I was at NC State, most of the people that I was meeting were in conferences organized by libraries and focused on electronic journals. And, you know, I was reading things in Humanist also, but the people that I was meeting at conferences were pretty much other people involved in doing electronic journals in an academic context and that was a very small and heterogeneous group of people. We had a guy who had a journal in hospitality research, there was Paul Ginsberg from the High Energy Physics Archive Project — I think he still works on that, Stevan Harnad was at some of these conferences and people from completely different disciplinary backgrounds, who, you know, the only thing they had in common was that they were trying to do electronic publishing, electronic scholarly publishing.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
Digital humanities community
COMMUNITY
GOES_THROUGH_PHASES_OF→
consolidation and diversification
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"goes through phases of consolidation and diversification"Evidence Source
I think the digital humanities community as a whole goes through phases of consolidation and diversification.
Anne Welsh
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John Unsworth
John Unsworth
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Jerry McGann
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I worked with Jerry McGann"
John Unsworth
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Ed Ayers
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I worked with Ed Ayers"
John Unsworth
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Thorny Staples
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I worked with Thorny Staples"
Thorny Staples
PERSON
WORKS_FOR→
Fedora Commons/Duraspace Group
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"now works for Fedora Commons/Duraspace Group"Evidence Source
And there, you know, I worked with Jerry McGann, I worked with Ed Ayers, I worked with Thorny Staples, who now works for Fedora Commons/Duraspace Group.
John Unsworth
PERSON
CHAIR_OF→
Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions
COMMITTEE
Surface Form:
"I was chair of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions"Evidence Source
For a chunk of that time I was chair of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions.
John Unsworth
PERSON
WORKED_IN_DEPARTMENT→
English Department, University of Virginia
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"I was also in the English department"
John Unsworth
PERSON
DIRECTED→
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
Surface Form:
"got hired to direct the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at Virginia"
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
PART_OF→
University of Virginia
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at Virginia"Evidence Source
I was also in the English department, and on a tenure track, so I had four years in rank at that point at NC State, but I got hired to direct the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at Virginia
Whitman Archive
PROJECT
STARTED_AT→
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
Surface Form:
"that project started at the institute"
Blake Archive Project
PROJECT
STARTED_AT→
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
Surface Form:
"Blake Archive Project started at the institute"Evidence Source
I worked with a bunch of faculty at Virginia and at other places who were early adopters, the people from the Whitman Archive over here, that project started at the institute, the Blake Archive Project started at the institute, Jerry's Rossetti archive, the Whitman in the Emily Dickinson project that Martha Nell Smith runs.
John Unsworth
PERSON
SUPERVISED→
Matt Kirschenbaum
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Matt Kirschenbaum was a PhD advisee"
Steve Ramsay
PERSON
STUDIED_IN_DEPARTMENT→
English Department, University of Virginia
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"was a student in the English department"
Steve Ramsay
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
Surface Form:
"an employee at the institute"
Amanda French
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
Surface Form:
"Amanda French was there"Evidence Source
I worked with a lot of great students: Matt Kirschenbaum was a PhD advisee; Steve Ramsay was a student in the English department and an employee at the institute, when he was a graduate student; Amanda French was there;
Martha Nell Smith
PERSON
DIRECTS→
Whitman in the Emily Dickinson project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"that Martha Nell Smith runs"Evidence Source
Jerry's Rossetti archive, the Whitman in the Emily Dickinson project that Martha Nell Smith runs.
John Unsworth
PERSON
HAD_APPOINTMENT_AT→
University of Virginia
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"from 1994 to 2004, when I was at Virginia"Evidence Source
so that was just you know from 1994 to 2004, when I was at Virginia, that was a real opening up into a much broader world of people,
John Unsworth
PERSON
ATTENDED→
Digital humanities conference (1994, Paris)
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"started coming to this conference actually, in 1994, it was my first, in Paris"
Digital humanities conference (1994, Paris)
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
Paris
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Paris"Evidence Source
that's when I started coming to this conference actually, in 1994, it was my first, in Paris.
Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions
COMMITTEE
PRODUCED→
Electronic Textual Editing
BOOK
Surface Form:
"We produced a book that they still sell called Electronic Textual Editing"
Electronic Textual Editing
BOOK
USES_STANDARD→
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
STANDARD
Surface Form:
"together with text encoding principles from the TEI"Evidence Source
We produced a book that they still sell called Electronic Textual Editing which was to bring the kind of principals of scholarly editing that the CSE represented together with text encoding principles from the TEI to give people fairly practical guidance actually about how to do electronic scholarly editing.
Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions
COMMITTEE
REVIEWED→
Blake Archive
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"they reviewed the Blake Archive and gave it high marks"Evidence Source
We re-did the guidelines for the CSE so that they would be able to review electronic editions, which they did, they reviewed the Blake Archive and gave it high marks,
John Unsworth
PERSON
JOINED_INSTITUTION→
University of Virginia
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"moved from North Carolina State to University of Virginia"Evidence Source
Well, in 1993, I moved from North Carolina State to University of Virginia, and that was a much broader job.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
Sorbonne
INSTITUTION
LACKED_INFRASTRUCTURE→
network jack
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"the old lady did not have a network jack"Evidence Source
Eventually it became clear that the old lady did not have a network jack, so we put together this laptop and said, “OK, we want an overhead projector.
John Unsworth
PERSON
HOSTED→
Digital humanities conference
CONFERENCE_SERIES
Surface Form:
"I've hosted it twice"Evidence Source
It took me a while to understand the importance of the social programme of this conference, you should always attend but then every year since going, I've hosted it twice ...
Digital humanities conference (1994, Paris)
CONFERENCE
HAD_SESSION_LANGUAGES→
French and English
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"It was half in French and half in English"Evidence Source
The first conference was a little weird. It was half in French and half in English, it was strictly segregated, you know, the French sessions and the sessions in English.
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
INSTITUTE
RAN_WEBSERVER→
web server for Virginia projects
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"set up a web server, which was big deal in 1994, and we set it up for these projects that we were going to do in Virginia"Evidence Source
We had just set up a web server, which was big deal in 1994, and we set it up for these projects that we were going to do in Virginia, it was a sort of decision.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
World Wide Web
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFORMED→
academic computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"that was a huge game changer for academic computing"Evidence Source
and that was a huge game changer for academic computing because we would never have had the same impact on our colleagues as that did, because that swept up everybody.
John Unsworth
PERSON
USED_HARDWARE→
TRS-80
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"it was a little TRS-80 that kept its data on a cassette recorder and ran basic programmes"Evidence Source
I also had another hand-me-down of his, it was a little TRS-80 that kept its data on a cassette recorder and ran basic programmes.
World Wide Web
TECHNOLOGY
RECEIVED_MEDIA_COVERAGE_IN→
The New York Times
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"In 1994 really, is when people started talking about the web in the New York Times"Evidence Source
In 1994 really, is when people started talking about the web in the New York Times and suddenly, then very rapidly [it] became something that was for everybody,
Postmodern Culture
JOURNAL
FEATURED_IN→
Mosaic what's cool list
FEATURE
Surface Form:
"Postmodern Culture was on that list"Evidence Source
when Mosaic first came out it had a what's cool list built into it, it was like a bookmarks list that was built into it, and Postmodern Culture was on that list, because there were so few cool things that we were on it.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
John Unsworth
PERSON
SUBSCRIBED_TO→
tattoo discussion group
DISCUSSION_GROUP
Surface Form:
"I belonged to one of the first network discussion groups that I found was called tattoo"
tattoo discussion group
DISCUSSION_GROUP
FOCUSED_ON→
body modification
TOPIC
Surface Form:
"it was on body modification"Evidence Source
I belonged to one of the first network discussion groups that I found was called tattoo, and it was on body modification and I subscribed to it, because it was like the only thing out there, and I was like “I wanna see how this works”.
Anne Welsh
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John Unsworth
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Unsworth
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
Ray Siemens
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Waterloo
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"had the good fortune of going to the University of Waterloo"Evidence Source
Then I had the good fortune of going to the University of Waterloo, where that was not only part of the curriculum but even in their English department, which I was in as an undergraduate.
University of Waterloo
INSTITUTION
HAS_PROGRAMME→
co-op programme
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"had a co-op programme"Evidence Source
They also had an association with computer science; they had a co-op programme where people went into computational environments for work terms when they weren't in their academic terms and that was the foundation for a movement forward, always with a couple of very strong, positive academic mentors.
gaming professor
POSITION
TAUGHT_COURSES_ON→
computer games as narrative
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"was teaching courses in the mid-eighties on"Evidence Source
While I was there they hired a gaming professor, specifically a gaming professor, who was teaching courses in the mid-eighties on computer games as narrative.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
digital humanities
FIELD
WAS_PREVIOUSLY_CALLED→
humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"then called humanities computing"
digital humanities
FIELD
WAS_PREVIOUSLY_CALLED→
computational literary studies
FIELD
Surface Form:
"then called humanities computing, or computational literary studies"Evidence Source
I then went on to do graduate work at a number of places, all of which had fledgling programmes in digital humanities, then called humanities computing, or computational literary studies and things like that.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH_PEOPLE_AT→
University of Alberta
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"working with people at University of Alberta"
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH_PEOPLE_AT→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"working with people at University of Toronto"
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH_PEOPLE_AT→
Oxford
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"working with people at University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Oxford, University of British Columbia"
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH_PEOPLE_AT→
University of British Columbia
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"working with people at University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Oxford, University of British Columbia"Evidence Source
In addition to Waterloo, I had the pleasure of working with people at University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Oxford, University of British Columbia, always finding really interesting and engaged people who were starting things in what we now know as digital humanities.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
brother of Paul Stanwood
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
IBM research labs
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"at the IBM research labs"
brother of Paul Stanwood
PERSON
DEVELOPED→
first key word in context dynamic index
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"developed the first key word in context dynamic index"Evidence Source
and his brother was the person who, at the IBM research labs, developed the first key word in context dynamic index and then gave it back to our community in the late 1950s-1960s, before humanities computing exploding in the sixties and then with the further booms afterwards.
first key word in context dynamic index
TECHNOLOGY
RELEASED_TO_COMMUNITY_IN→
late 1950s-1960s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"gave it back to our community in the late 1950s-1960s"
humanities computing
FIELD
HAD_MAJOR_GROWTH_IN→
the sixties
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"before humanities computing exploding in the sixties"Evidence Source
developed the first key word in context dynamic index and then gave it back to our community in the late 1950s-1960s, before humanities computing exploding in the sixties and then with the further booms afterwards.
OUCS
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
Oxford
CITY
Surface Form:
"at a couple of different institutions, including Oxford, where I got to know Lou Burnard and the folks at OUCS"Evidence Source
from there I spent time at a couple of different institutions, including Oxford, where I got to know Lou Burnard and the folks at OUCS,
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at that power house where Willard McCarty was as well, that is the University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)"
Russ Wooldridge
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at that power house where Willard McCarty was as well, that is the University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was as well, that is the University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)"Evidence Source
I spent time with Ian Lancashire and many of his colleagues, Russ Wooldridge and others at that power house where Willard McCarty was as well, that is the University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH);
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH→
Steven Reimer
PERSON
Surface Form:
"went on to work with people like Steven Reimer and David Miall"
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH→
David Miall
PERSON
Surface Form:
"went on to work with people like Steven Reimer and David Miall"
Steven Reimer
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Alberta
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at the University of Alberta"
David Miall
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Alberta
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at the University of Alberta"Evidence Source
I then went on to work with people like Steven Reimer and David Miall at the University of Alberta.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_WITH→
Paul Stanwood
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I worked with Paul Stanwood"
Paul Stanwood
PERSON
HAS_FIELD→
Renaissance literary English
FIELD
Surface Form:
"a Renaissance literary English professor"Evidence Source
I worked with Paul Stanwood, a Renaissance literary English professor, and his brother was the person who, at the IBM research labs, developed the first key word in context dynamic index and then gave it back to our community in the late 1950s-1960s, before humanities computing exploding in the sixties and then with the further booms afterwards.
Phil Smith
PERSON
PREVIOUSLY_AFFILIATED_WITH→
Harvard
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"had then come from Harvard"
Phil Smith
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
University of Waterloo
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"to the University of Waterloo"
Phil Smith
PERSON
WORKED_IN_FIELD→
arts computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"to do arts computing"
Neil Randall
PERSON
HELD_POSITION_IN_FIELD→
gaming
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was our hire in gaming at that point"Evidence Source
So, in my undergraduate degree Phil Smith, who had then come from Harvard to the University of Waterloo to do arts computing; Paul Beam; Neil Randall as well, he was our hire in gaming at that point.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
COMPLETED_DEGREE_AT→
University of British Columbia
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"University of British Columbia, where I ultimately completed my degree"Evidence Source
University of British Columbia, where I ultimately completed my degree working with a number of digital humanists — but ultimately the brother of one of the key figures in digital humanities, often unsung:
Anne Welsh
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Ray Siemens
Telecommunication Protocol / Internet Protocol
TECHNOLOGY
IS_CALLED→
the Internet
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"we call it the Internet for short"Evidence Source
And I said, “well what is this?” and they said, “Oh, it's Telecommunication Protocol / Internet Protocol”. And I said, “What's that?”, they said “Well, we call it the Internet for short.”
Ray Siemens
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
IBM in Toronto
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"one of my work terms was with IBM in Toronto"Evidence Source
For example, one of my work terms was with IBM in Toronto, I was at [the University of] Waterloo which is very close to Toronto; I was doing documentation in the IBM lab, and they gave me this big pile of books and said, “OK, it's your job to revise these.”
digital humanities
FIELD
SITS_AT_INTERSECTION_OF→
intersection of computational method and humanities endeavour
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"sit at the intersection of computational method and humanities endeavour"
humanities computing
FIELD
SITS_AT_INTERSECTION_OF→
intersection of computational method and humanities endeavour
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"sit at the intersection of computational method and humanities endeavour"Evidence Source
Now Willard [McCarty] says, digital humanities and humanities computing sit at the intersection of computational method and humanities endeavour.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
HAS_FIELD→
early Tudor Renaissance English literature
FIELD
Surface Form:
"my other field is early Tudor Renaissance English literature"Evidence Source
You may know my other field is early Tudor Renaissance English literature, which is very exciting and dynamic too, but it's very different.
Anne Welsh
Anne Welsh
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
St Andrews
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"read literature at St Andrews"
Anne Welsh
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
literature
FIELD
Surface Form:
"read literature at St Andrews"Evidence Source
I started off the same, I read literature at St Andrews, which is very much the old style, so I know exactly what you mean: dynamic, but in a completely, completely different way.
Ray Siemens
Ray Siemens master's degree
DEGREE
HAS_TIME_SPAN→
late eighties to early nineties, 89–91
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in the late eighties to early nineties, 89–91"Evidence Source
and I was happy to have had it in graduate school during my master's degree in the late eighties to early nineties, 89–91.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
TOOK_COURSES_IN→
computer gaming
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was taking courses about computer gaming"
Ray Siemens
PERSON
TOOK_COURSES_IN→
computer assisted learning
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was taking courses about computer assisted learning"
Ray Siemens
PERSON
TOOK_COURSES_IN→
digital humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was taking courses about computer assisted learning and what we would now call digital humanities"Evidence Source
In the English department I was taking courses about computer gaming, I was taking courses about computer assisted learning and what we would now call digital humanities.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
Paradise Lost
LITERARY_WORK
ANALYSED_WITH_TOOL→
TACT
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"to begin to use text analysis computing tools (TACT from the University of Toronto)"Evidence Source
Its a very long poem and my first engagement before I sat down and read it — I read it through straight as best I could — was to begin to use text analysis computing tools (TACT from the University of Toronto) it gave me a sense of things that close-reading might uncover.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
USED_TOOL→
TACT
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"to begin to use text analysis computing tools (TACT from the University of Toronto)"
TACT
TECHNOLOGY
ASSOCIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"TACT from the University of Toronto"Evidence Source
my first engagement before I sat down and read it — I read it through straight as best I could — was to begin to use text analysis computing tools (TACT from the University of Toronto) it gave me a sense of things that close-reading might uncover.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
Karl Kroeber
PERSON
DISSERTATION_ADVISOR_OF→
Steve Jones
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Steve Jones' dissertation advisor"Evidence Source
(also I believe Steve Jones' dissertation advisor, who's not of the same generation as my father).
Karl Kroeber
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH_INSTITUTION→
University of Wisconsin
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"dissertation advisor from University of Wisconsin"
Karl Kroeber
PERSON
ACTIVE_IN_TIME→
late fifties and early sixties
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in the late fifties and early sixties"Evidence Source
one of them was his own dissertation advisor from University of Wisconsin in the late fifties and early sixties, Karl Kroeber who had done work in this area
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
Ray Siemens
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
SIGDOC Group
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I went to a number of conferences with him, the SIGDOC Group"Evidence Source
And so I went to a number of conferences with him, the SIGDOC Group, a documentation group under ACM's special interest group structure,
Ray Siemens
PERSON
GREW_UP_IN→
Edmonton
CITY
Surface Form:
"I grew up in Edmonton"Evidence Source
I grew up in Edmonton, which is up far away, especially if you go back to twenty/thirty years ago, very far away even by air from larger centres where conferences then would take place and there was a lot going on, it was really exciting.
first joint ACH/ALLC conference
CONFERENCE
HELD_IN→
Toronto
CITY
Surface Form:
"in 1989 when I was still in that part of the world around Toronto, where the first joint conference between the two groups, ACH and ALLC, took place"Evidence Source
I was actually right next door with some of the same people in 1989 when I was still in that part of the world around Toronto, where the first joint conference between the two groups, ACH and ALLC, took place.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
Society for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I went to the Society for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education"Evidence Source
I went to the Society for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education, where a lot of our pedagogical work was being shown off,
first joint ACH/ALLC conference
CONFERENCE
HAS_YEAR→
1989
TIME
Surface Form:
"That was '89"Evidence Source
That was '89; it's a few years passed since.
SIGDOC Group
ORGANISATION
IS_SPECIAL_INTEREST_GROUP_OF→
ACM
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"a documentation group under ACM's special interest group structure"Evidence Source
the SIGDOC Group, a documentation group under ACM's special interest group structure,
first joint ACH/ALLC conference
CONFERENCE
BROUGHT_TOGETHER→
ACH and ALLC
ORGANISATION_PAIR
Surface Form:
"when the two groups came together, the North Americans and the European groups"Evidence Source
who were then at a conference that was truly momentous, I believe, for our discipline when the two groups came together, the North Americans and the European groups.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Ray Siemens
summer institute in Victoria
EVENT
LOCATED_IN→
Victoria
CITY
Surface Form:
"summer institute in Victoria"Evidence Source
those who are involved in training, and other ventures including what we do at the summer institute in Victoria but, also, those in industry.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
HAS_FIRST_COMPUTER_EXPERIENCE_TIME→
very early 1980s (’80 or ’81)
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"that was in the very early 1980s, ’80 or ’81, perhaps"Evidence Source
I remember that very well, that was in the very early 1980s, ’80 or ’81, perhaps. That was my first experience with computers.
Institute of Continental Shelf Research
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
University of Trondheim
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"across the corridor was the Institute of Continental Shelf Research"Evidence Source
I was a Philosophy student at the University of Trondheim, Norway and across the corridor was the Institute of Continental Shelf Research.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
HAS_FIRST_COMPUTER_EXPERIENCE_PLACE→
University of Trondheim
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"That was my first experience with computers"Evidence Source
I was a Philosophy student at the University of Trondheim, Norway … That was my first experience with computers.
University of Trondheim
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Norway
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"University of Trondheim, Norway"Evidence Source
I was a Philosophy student at the University of Trondheim, Norway.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Trondheim
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I was a Philosophy student at the University of Trondheim, Norway"Evidence Source
I was a Philosophy student at the University of Trondheim, Norway.
DEC computer
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_OPERATING_SYSTEM→
VAX/VMS operating system
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"a DEC [Digital Equipment Corporation] machine with the VAX/VMS operating system"Evidence Source
It was a DEC [Digital Equipment Corporation] machine with the VAX/VMS operating system which had a very good text editor.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
INVOLVED_ORGANISATIONS→
Philosophy Departments at the four universities of Norway
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"which was a co-operation between the Philosophy Departments at the (then four) universities of Norway"Evidence Source
a project called the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project, which was a co-operation between the Philosophy Departments at the (then four) universities of Norway.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
HIRED_TO_TRANSCRIBE→
Wittgenstein’s writings
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"I was hired to transcribe Wittgenstein’s writings"Evidence Source
And I was hired to transcribe Wittgenstein’s writings.
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
USED_METHOD→
typewriter transcription and off-site OCR
METHOD
Surface Form:
"the transcription was done on a typewriter, and then it was OCR-read off site somewhere"Evidence Source
At that time the transcription was done on a typewriter, and then it was OCR-read off site somewhere.
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
USED_METHOD→
text processing on computers
METHOD
Surface Form:
"since I had learned to use text processing, we typed it directly into the machine"Evidence Source
But gradually, since I had learned to use text processing, we typed it directly into the machine, which was wonderful.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I was hired to work on a project called the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project"Evidence Source
My first encounter was when I was hired to work on a project called the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project, which was a co-operation between the Philosophy Departments at the (then four) universities of Norway.
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
USED_SOURCE→
microfilm copy of Wittgenstein’s writings
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"They had acquired a microfilm copy of Wittgenstein’s writings"Evidence Source
They had acquired a microfilm copy of Wittgenstein’s writings.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
LED_PROJECT→
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"get the job as the leader of the Norwegian Wittgenstein project"Evidence Source
Later I was fortunate to get the job as the leader of the Norwegian Wittgenstein project.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"with good help from colleagues at the Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities"Evidence Source
So I learned to program, and with good help from colleagues at the Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities, I managed to get into the matter.
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
text encoding
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"had already started using some kind of text encoding"
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
DEVELOPED_SOFTWARE→
software for processing Wittgenstein materials
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"had written software for doing things with the stuff"Evidence Source
They had already started using some kind of text encoding and had written software for doing things with the stuff.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
HAS_STAFF_SPECIALIZED_IN→
applying computing to Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"they had a staff of people who were trained in applying computing to Humanities"Evidence Source
And they had a staff of people who were trained in applying computing to Humanities, for example.
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
HAS_ESTABLISHMENT_DATE→
1972
TIME
Surface Form:
"had been established already in 1972 in Bergen"
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Bergen
CITY
Surface Form:
"had been established already in 1972 in Bergen"Evidence Source
the Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities, which had been established already in 1972 in Bergen.
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
LOCATED_IN_INSTITUTION→
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the project was situated in the Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities"Evidence Source
Well, by then I had moved to Bergen, and the project was situated in the Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities, which had been established already in 1972 in Bergen.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Lars H. Hauge
PERSON
DIRECTOR_OF→
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the Director of the computing center, Lars H. Hauge"Evidence Source
But the Director of the computing center, Lars H. Hauge, gave me the self-confidence I needed.
Espen S. Ore
PERSON
WORKS_AT→
University of Oslo
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"now at the University of Oslo"Evidence Source
Espen S. Ore (now at the University of Oslo).
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
PERSON
Surface Form:
"with whom I have had a close cooperation ever since"Evidence Source
It was also through the Text Encoding Initiative that I got to know Michael Sperberg-McQueen, with whom I have had a close cooperation ever since, later to be joined by Yves Marcoux from the University of Montreal.
Lars G. Johnsen
PERSON
WORKS_AT→
National Library in Oslo
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"now at the National Library in Oslo"Evidence Source
Lars G. Johnsen (now at the National Library in Oslo).
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
Text Encoding Initiative
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I got in touch with the Text Encoding Initiative, and started to take part in its working group meetings and conferences"
Text Encoding Initiative
PROJECT
ORGANIZES→
Text Encoding Initiative working group meetings and conferences
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"its working group meetings and conferences"Evidence Source
Later in the 1980s, I got in touch with the Text Encoding Initiative, and started to take part in its working group meetings and conferences.
Yves Marcoux
PERSON
WORKS_AT→
University of Montreal
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"from the University of Montreal"Evidence Source
later to be joined by Yves Marcoux from the University of Montreal.
Øystein Reigem
PERSON
WORKS_AT→
Uni Computing, Bergen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"now at Uni Computing, Bergen"Evidence Source
Øystein Reigem (now at Uni Computing, Bergen).
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
University of Bergen
INSTITUTION
FUNDED→
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we got support from the University of Bergen"
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
HAS_DURATION→
10 years
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"worked on that for 10 years"Evidence Source
And then we got support from the University of Bergen and worked on that for 10 years.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"worked very hard on establishing a new project, called the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen"Evidence Source
So I worked very hard on establishing a new project, called the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"as a computing consultant of sorts at the Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities"Evidence Source
So then I had to earn my living as a computing consultant of sorts at the Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE→
1990
TIME
Surface Form:
"That project started in 1990"
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
HAS_AGREEMENT_WITH→
Wittgenstein Trustees
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"based on an understanding with the Wittgenstein Trustees"Evidence Source
That project started in 1990, based on an understanding with the Wittgenstein Trustees.
Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
PROJECT
WAS_CLOSED_DUE_TO→
lack of clarity about copyright and some other matters
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"was closed because of lack of clarity about copyright and some other matters"Evidence Source
This first project was closed because of lack of clarity about copyright and some other matters.
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
HAS_RIGHTS_TO_PRODUCE→
machine-readable electronic version of the Wittgenstein Nachlass
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"the agreement allowed us to produce what was called a machine-readable version of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, and to publish it in electronic form"Evidence Source
We had an agreement with them, and the agreement allowed us to produce what was called a machine-readable version of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, and to publish it in electronic form, but very clearly not to produce anything in book form.
electronic edition of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
PUBLISHED_BY→
Oxford University Press
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"published them with Oxford University Press"Evidence Source
We spent exactly 10 years transcribing and finishing all the 20,000 pages of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass and published them with Oxford University Press.
Wittgenstein’s writings
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
HAS_COPYRIGHT_ASSIGNED_TO→
colleagues in Philosophy in England and Finland
PERSON_GROUP
Surface Form:
"Wittgenstein had assigned the copyright to his writings to colleagues in Philosophy in England and Finland"Evidence Source
Wittgenstein had assigned the copyright to his writings to colleagues in Philosophy in England and Finland.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
SGML
TECHNOLOGY_STANDARD
HAS_STATUS→
ISO standard
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"SGML had just been established as an ISO standard a few years before"Evidence Source
SGML had just been established as an ISO standard a few years before.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
DEVELOPED_SOFTWARE_FOR→
MECS-based Wittgenstein Archives system
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"which meant that I had to develop all the software"Evidence Source
So I decided on a code system or markup language (A Multi-Element Code System (MECS)) especially for this, which meant that I had to develop all the software and this was a lot of work.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
DESIGNED→
Multi-Element Code System (MECS)
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I decided on a code system or markup language (A Multi-Element Code System (MECS)) especially for this"
Multi-Element Code System (MECS)
TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPED_FOR→
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"a code system or markup language (A Multi-Element Code System (MECS)) especially for this"Evidence Source
So I decided on a code system or markup language (A Multi-Element Code System (MECS)) especially for this.
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
DECIDED_NOT_TO_USE→
SGML
TECHNOLOGY_STANDARD
Surface Form:
"We, or I, decided not to use SGML for a number of reasons"Evidence Source
We, or I, decided not to use SGML for a number of reasons.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Wittgenstein’s writings (electronic edition)
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
AVAILABLE_IN_FORMAT→
electronic form
FORMAT
Surface Form:
"now it is accessible electronically"Evidence Source
and now it is accessible electronically.
parts of the Wittgenstein Nachlass
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
AVAILABLE_ON→
web
TECHNOLOGY_PLATFORM
Surface Form:
"parts of the Nachlass is now available on the web"Evidence Source
Because of the contract restraints it is still not possible although parts of the Nachlass is now available on the web.
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
PROJECT
IS_CENTRE_FOR→
Wittgenstein research
FIELD
Surface Form:
"has become a centre for Wittgenstein research"Evidence Source
I think it’s simply because it has become a centre for Wittgenstein research and people travel there to see people, other people.
copyright holders of Wittgenstein’s writings
PERSON_GROUP
RESTRICTED_ONLINE_ACCESS_TO→
Wittgenstein Nachlass source material
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"the copyright holders did not want to let that happen"Evidence Source
it was out of the question because the copyright holders did not want to let that happen.
CD edition of Wittgenstein’s collected works
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
PUBLISHED_BY→
Oxford University Press
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"we published the entire collected works on CD at Oxford University Press"Evidence Source
So we spent 10 years on this and then we published the entire collected works on CD at Oxford University Press.
Wittgenstein original manuscripts
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
LOCATED_IN→
Cambridge
CITY
Surface Form:
"the originals in Cambridge"Evidence Source
The whole reason for doing this work was to make the writings accessible so it would not be necessary for scholars to travel to see the originals in Cambridge, in the Austrian National Library and there are a couple of manuscripts in Canada as well.
Wittgenstein manuscripts
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
LOCATED_IN→
Canada
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"a couple of manuscripts in Canada as well"Evidence Source
there are a couple of manuscripts in Canada as well.
Wittgenstein original manuscripts
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
LOCATED_IN→
Austrian National Library
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"in the Austrian National Library"Evidence Source
to travel to see the originals in Cambridge, in the Austrian National Library and there are a couple of manuscripts in Canada as well.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Wittgenstein’s unpublished manuscripts
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
HAS_COPYRIGHT_ASSIGNED_TO→
four people mentioned in his will
PERSON_GROUP
Surface Form:
"he gave the copyright of all his unpublished manuscripts to the four people mentioned"Evidence Source
He said in his will that he gave the copyright of all his unpublished manuscripts to the four people mentioned to publish and dispose of as they think fit.
Wittgenstein’s unpublished manuscripts
DOCUMENT_COLLECTION
COPYRIGHT_ASSIGNED_IN_YEAR→
1951
TIME
Surface Form:
"That was 1951"Evidence Source
That was 1951.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
ACTING_DIRECTOR_OF→
Humanities Computing Center in Bergen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"for a couple of years after that I was Acting Director of the Humanities Computing Center in Bergen"Evidence Source
for a couple of years after that I was Acting Director of the Humanities Computing Center in Bergen.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
APPOINTED_AS→
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
POSITION
Surface Form:
"I became an Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy in 1994"Evidence Source
I became an Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy in 1994.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
RESUMED_POSITION_AT→
Department of Philosophy
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"In 2002 I picked up the position that I held at the Department of Philosophy since 1994"Evidence Source
In 2002 I picked up the position that I held at the Department of Philosophy since 1994.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
TEACHES_SUBJECT→
Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"able to also teach Humanities Computing in Bergen"Evidence Source
Since then I have been teaching Philosophy and been fortunate enough to be able to also teach Humanities Computing in Bergen.
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
TEACHES_SUBJECT→
Philosophy
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"Since then I have been teaching Philosophy"Evidence Source
Since then I have been teaching Philosophy.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Claus Huitfeldt
PERSON
ORGANIZED→
seminars on document representation, semantics, cognitive processes and technology
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"we organised some seminars along those lines"Evidence Source
These were issues that interested me a lot, so we organised some seminars along those lines and that was quite interesting.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
Philosophy
DISCIPLINE
PERFORMED_IN→
language
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Philosophy is a discipline which is performed almost entirely in language"Evidence Source
Philosophy is a discipline which is performed almost entirely in language: you talk, you listen, you read, you write.
English/American Analytic Philosophy
SUBFIELD
IS_SUBFIELD_OF→
Philosophy
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"philosophical traditions too, mainly the English/American Analytic Philosophy"Evidence Source
this has to do with philosophical traditions too, mainly the English/American Analytic Philosophy which, to a large extent, is a systematic, problem-oriented discipline.
continental (German) philosophical tradition
SUBFIELD
HAS_TRADITION_OF→
editorial works
PRACTICE
Surface Form:
"the continental, especially the German tradition, historically had a lot of editorial works"Evidence Source
Whereas the continental, especially the German tradition, historically had a lot of editorial works.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Claus Huitfeldt
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
TAUGHT_SUBJECT→
ESL
FIELD
Surface Form:
"hired to teach ESL"Evidence Source
At that point I was teaching at this American school - I was partly hired to teach ESL so I started to write little programmes, drill and kill-type programmes.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
HAD_EMPLOYMENT_PERIOD→
'82-'85
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"taught from '82-'85"Evidence Source
I also remember very vividly, this was, I taught from '82-'85, I remember very, very vividly when the first Macintoshes came in and I and a friend who were into computers, we trundled down to the Apple Store in Kuwait City and we sat down and played around with this first Macintosh and it immediately appealed to me.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
GREW_UP_IN→
Italy
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"grew up in"Evidence Source
I should say I grew up in Italy, so when I was in high school there weren't a lot of computers around.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
STUDIED_IN→
India
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"took a year studying in India"Evidence Source
I took a year out of college so it was really, I guess, my fourth year, I took a year studying in India, but it was my second to the last year, when I took this computer science course and from there on in I actually used, I got access to the lab and I hated typing so much that I used the computing facilities.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
RECEIVED_CREDIT_FROM→
University of Washington
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"got credit from the University of Washington"Evidence Source
One of the teachers, I guess he was a science teacher, taught computing and he ran a class for the teachers and I actually, I believe I got credit from the University of Washington, or something like that, as like an extension class that he ran.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
American school in Kuwait
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was teaching in an American school in Kuwait"Evidence Source
So I was sort of hanging out in that culture, then my first job a couple of years after I graduated was as a teacher in the Middle East. I was teaching in an American school in Kuwait and at that point I bought myself a computer — and it was an Apple II clone.
American school in Kuwait
INSTITUTION
HAS_FACILITY→
Apple II lab
FACILITY
Surface Form:
"had a little Apple II lab"Evidence Source
The high school was well funded, it had a little Apple II lab and I started to bring my students in to use them to try to do some pedagogical stuff with the computer lab.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
TOOK_COURSE→
computer science course
COURSE
Surface Form:
"took a computer science course, or an introduction to computing course"Evidence Source
When I got to college was when I first encountered computers and I took a computer science course, or an introduction to computing course.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Willard McCarty
PERSON
HAS_POSITION_AT→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was the Assistant Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)"Evidence Source
I wandered into Willard McCarty's office (I was then at the University of Toronto and Willard was the Assistant Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)) and I was obviously by now quite into computing and trying to find a community.
Apple Research Partnership Programme (ARPP)
PROGRAMME
EMBEDS_STUDENTS_IN→
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"paid for graduate students to be embedded in Computing Services as sort of evangelist trainers and support people"Evidence Source
In effect this involved Apple paying for mostly graduate students, I think at some other universities it might have been senior undergrads, but at UT it was all graduate students. So they paid for graduate students to be embedded in Computing Services as sort of evangelist trainers and support people and this was a godsend for me, in a number of ways.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
ATTENDS→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I was then at the University of Toronto"Evidence Source
So, I spent more money, didn't have a hard drive but I was happy, and just to sort of wrap it all up, a year or so later or whatever, I wandered into Willard McCarty's office (I was then at the University of Toronto and Willard was the Assistant Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)) and I was obviously by now quite into computing and trying to find a community.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
WORKED_IN_UNIT→
Microcomputer Support Unit
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"I was in the Microcomputer Support Unit"Evidence Source
This was right when the internet was happening, right when the shift from mainframes to, at least at the University of Toronto, I was in the Microcomputer Support Unit, you know — I was probably in the unit that had the largest number of smart people who understood internet computing in all of Canada, and I could hang out there all the time I wanted to and then I was sort of put in charge of, I did a lot of training, and I would meet and I would work with various Faculty members and stuff like that, so that's sort of really the way I took off.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
BECAME_EXPERT_IN→
HyperCard
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"I became the HyperCard expert"
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
HIRED_BY→
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"in '89 I actually got hired by Computing Services"Evidence Source
A big part of my job was, I became the HyperCard expert, and in '89 I actually got hired by Computing Services because I was embedded, they saw me and got to know me, and I actually took on a full-time job as a text and presentation specialist, I was working under John Bradley in Computing Services.
UTCS
INSTITUTION
IS_ABBREVIATION_OF→
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"called UTCS for University of Toronto Computing Services"Evidence Source
I need to stress that this is different from what Willard [McCarty] did, Willard was in CCH, John Bradley and I were in the central Computing Services, [actually called UTCS for University of Toronto Computing Services].
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
STARTED_AT→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"went to UT in '85"Evidence Source
No, this is like I'm guessing '86, '87. Well, I went to UT in '85; in '86 or '87 I started as an Apple Research Partner and it was a very interesting programme.
Apple Research Partners programme
PROGRAMME
OPERATES_IN→
Canada
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"it was a Canadian programme"Evidence Source
They were funding these Apple Research Partners across Canada; it was a Canadian programme.
Apple
ORGANISATION
DONATED_EQUIPMENT_TO→
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"gave a Macintosh lab to the University of Toronto Computing Services"Evidence Source
This was back in the days when computing companies had a lot of money, when there were big margins on personal computers, so Apple, for example, gave a Macintosh lab to the University of Toronto Computing Services and one of the things I did was to run training in that lab on Macintoshes, design it and run courses.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
JOINED_PROGRAMME→
Apple Research Partner
ROLE
Surface Form:
"started as an Apple Research Partner"Evidence Source
Well, I went to UT in '85; in '86 or '87 I started as an Apple Research Partner and it was a very interesting programme.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
WAS_LEADING_UNIT_ALONG_WITH→
CETH at Princeton and Oxford
INSTITUTION_GROUP
Surface Form:
"was a leading unit at the time, along with Oxford and, you know, Susan Hockey was at Princeton at CETH. Toronto, CETH and Oxford were the three major units, at least in the English-speaking world"Evidence Source
CCH, which was a leading unit at the time, along with Oxford and, you know, Susan Hockey was at Princeton at CETH. Toronto, CETH and Oxford were the three major units, at least in the English-speaking world, and overnight CCH got shut down — why?
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
REPORTED_TO→
Vice President Information Technology, University of Toronto
POSITION
Surface Form:
"had at various times reported to a Vice President Information Technology"Evidence Source
I was part of the University of Toronto Computing Services, which had at various times reported to a Vice President Information Technology or something or other ...
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
BUILT_LABS_FOR→
Italian Department, University of Toronto
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"I was building labs for the Italian Department"Evidence Source
It's not building labs for us. I was building labs for the Italian Department.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
HELD_ROLE→
Instructional Technology project manager at University of Toronto Computing Services
POSITION
Surface Form:
"by 1990 or 91, I was actually involved with Instructional Technology, so I was like a project manager"Evidence Source
Now how did this affect me, because by 1990 or 91, I was actually involved with Instructional Technology, so I was like a project manager.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
HAS_RESEARCH_FUNCTION→
humanities computing research
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was set up as an academic unit, it had a research function"Evidence Source
So anyway, CCH was set up as an academic unit, it had a research function.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
REPORTED_TO→
Dean of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
POSITION
Surface Form:
"reported to the Dean of Arts and Science"Evidence Source
So CCH reported to the Dean of Arts and Science, which was the big faculty.
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
HAS_SERVICE_MANDATE→
computing service to the university
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"we were a service unit"Evidence Source
So, going back to your original questions, CCH was an academic unit, we were a service unit.
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
OPERATED→
administrative mainframes for grades and pay cheques
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"had, for example, the big administrative mainframes, you know, people's grades, people's pay cheques and stuff like that"Evidence Source
The unit I worked for had, for example, the big administrative mainframes, you know, people's grades, people's pay cheques and stuff like that.
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
RAN_NETWORK→
O-Net
NETWORK
Surface Form:
"ran O-Net"Evidence Source
They ran the network, they, in fact, ran a lot of the internet in Canada because they ran O-Net.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
WAS_CLOSED→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"got shut down"Evidence Source
Toronto, CETH and Oxford were the three major units, at least in the English-speaking world, and overnight CCH got shut down — why? Because they were doing their own stuff and then the Dean, when there were cutbacks, the Dean sort of asked the various Chairs, you know, is this unit supporting you?
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Geoffrey Rockwell and John Bradley
PERSON_GROUP
PRESENTED_PAPER_AT→
Paris conference in 1994
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"we presented that paper in '94, I believe it was '94, at the Paris conference in '94"Evidence Source
And then we began to do what today people would I guess call data mining. We were trying to see if there were any correlations and we presented that paper in '94, I believe it was '94, at the Paris conference in '94.
SIMWEB project
PROJECT
BUILT_ON→
TACTweb
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"SIMWEB was built on TACTweb"
SIMWEB project
PROJECT
HOSTED_AT→
McMaster University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"it was running at McMaster's"Evidence Source
I can find the name of the paper — but the paper, I think we were presenting on the SIMWEB project, which may sort of be running somewhere; no, it's probably down now because it was running at McMaster's SIMWEB was built on TACTweb.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
HAS_THESIS_TOPIC→
philosophical dialogue
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"my thesis was on philosophical dialogue"Evidence Source
My thesis was, was fairly pure but inevitably I was doing a certain amount of humanities computing on the side, in the sense of, I was using, John Bradley and I decided to, at a certain point, to use our lunch hours to start talking about text analysis. ... And so, because my thesis was on philosophical dialogue we began to do a series of experiments on dialogues, mostly Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
Geoffrey Rockwell and John Bradley
PERSON_GROUP
USED_DATA_SOURCE→
University of Toronto card catalogue
DATA_SOURCE
Surface Form:
"went through the University of Toronto card catalogue year by year"Evidence Source
So John and I began to, we began to do stuff that people are doing a lot of now but we went through the University of Toronto card catalogue year by year, gathering all the references that had the word dialogue in the title and then we also did a bunch of control words like “Plato” and “Hume” and some other control words and stuff like that.
Eye ConTact paper
PUBLICATION
PUBLISHED_IN→
Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (CHWP)
PUBLICATION
Surface Form:
"is still up on CHWP [Computing in the Humanities Working Papers]"Evidence Source
The outcome could be, you know, could be a Key word in context (KWIC), a list of words, or, you know, a number — 42 — but the pipeline and the Eye ConTact paper, which is still up on CHWP [Computing in the Humanities Working Papers], sort of came out of that work.
Geoffrey Rockwell and John Bradley
PERSON_GROUP
PROTOTYPED→
visual programming environment for text analysis
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"We ended up prototyping a visual programming environment for text analysis"Evidence Source
We ended up prototyping a visual programming environment for text analysis, so there were these two strands to visualisation.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Perseus project
PROJECT
RAN_ON→
HyperCard
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"Perseus, when it ran on HyperCard"
Perseus project
PROJECT
USED_TO_SEARCH→
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"wrote extensions that searched the TLG [Thesaurus Linguae Graecae]"Evidence Source
And I was next to Elli Mylonas, showing off the early days of Perseus, when it ran on HyperCard and they wrote extensions that searched the TLG [Thesaurus Linguae Graecae] and the two of us hit it off, the two of us were the two HyperCard hackers.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
RAN_COURSE→
non-credit graduate course at CCH
COURSE
Surface Form:
"started running that non-credit graduate course"
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
non-credit graduate course at CCH
COURSE
Surface Form:
"I both took it and I actually did some talks to it"Evidence Source
And later on when he started running that non-credit graduate course, I both took it and I actually did some talks to it.
joint ACH/ALLC conference 1989
CONFERENCE
HELD_AT→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was held at the University of Toronto"Evidence Source
I would say the moment that most brought the sense of community to me was in 1989 when the joint ACH/ALLC conference was held at the University of Toronto.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
SUBSCRIBED_TO→
Humanist discussion list
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I subscribed to Humanist"Evidence Source
in 1987, when Humanist was started, I think I subscribed within the year, you know, maybe it wasn't '87, it was '88 or something like that, I subscribed to Humanist.
John Bradley
PERSON
WORKED_FOR→
University of Toronto Computing Services
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was working for Computing Services"
John Bradley
PERSON
CONNECTED_WITH→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"very closely connected to CCH"Evidence Source
John Bradley, who was the lead programmer on TACT, so he was actually very closely connected to CCH, even though he was working for Computing Services.
John Bradley
PERSON
LEAD_PROGRAMMER_ON→
TACT
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"was the lead programmer on TACT"Evidence Source
once I was embedded in UTCS, even when I was just an ARPP person, I was hanging out a lot with John Bradley, who was the lead programmer on TACT, so he was actually very closely connected to CCH, even though he was working for Computing Services.
Humanist discussion list
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE→
1987
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1987, when Humanist was started"Evidence Source
So I guess I was aware that there was this thing and in 1987, when Humanist was started, I think I subscribed within the year, you know, maybe it wasn't '87, it was '88 or something like that, I subscribed to Humanist.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
EXHIBITED_AT→
joint ACH/ALLC conference 1989 exhibit hall
EVENT
Surface Form:
"I had been doing a lot of work in HyperCard and I was one of the exhibitors"Evidence Source
There was an exhibit hall and I had been doing a lot of work in HyperCard and I was one of the exhibitors, I was actually sitting right next to, what's his name from TUSTEP, who, he did not understand a damn thing I did and I didn't understand a damn thing he did.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
CONNECTED_WITH→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"in '85 once I connected with CCH"Evidence Source
Well, I had a sense in '85 once I connected with CCH, I had a sense.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Ted Nelson
PERSON
GAVE_TALK_AT→
conference in Toronto that Rockwell describes
EVENT
Surface Form:
"gave a talk"Evidence Source
Anyway, Ted Nelson came to town and gave a talk. I went to his talk, I feel guilty that I didn't go to, Northrop Frye talked at that conference and I didn't go to his talk.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
ASSOCIATED_WITH_SOFTWARE→
TUSTEP
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"Wilhelm Ott could be doing with TUSTEP"Evidence Source
but of course at that time I was convinced that the PC was passé and anything Wilhelm Ott could be doing with TUSTEP, you know, sure it may have some cool features but it'll be even better on the Mac anyway soon.
George Landow
PERSON
WAS_SCHEDULED_TO_TEACH→
hypertext workshop before the conference
EVENT
Surface Form:
"was supposed to teach a workshop on hypertext"Evidence Source
Oh, George Landow! So the other thing that made me feel part of the community, George Landow was supposed to, you see the week before there were workshops, he was supposed to teach a workshop on hypertext and he had some family issues, personal issues whatever, he bailed.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
TAUGHT→
hypertext workshop at the Mac Lab in Computing Services
EVENT
Surface Form:
"they asked me to teach the hypertext workshop, which I taught at the Mac Lab in Computing Services and I basically taught HyperCard and hypertext"Evidence Source
So at the last moment they asked me to teach the hypertext workshop, which I taught at the Mac Lab in Computing Services and I basically taught HyperCard and hypertext.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
REGULARLY_ATTENDS→
Digital Humanities conferences
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"from about '89 I've been going semi-regularly to the DH conferences and giving papers"Evidence Source
So I guess that conference was an important one, I think that's probably, after that is when I started going to more and more conferences. I've been to most of the DH conferences, I've probably missed three or four when children were being born, or you know, important things like that, but from about '89 I've been going semi-regularly to the DH conferences and giving papers.
Nikki Yokokura
PERSON
CREATED_HYPERCARD_MATERIALS_FOR→
teaching Japanese
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was doing these really cool HyperCard stats for teaching Japanese"Evidence Source
there was this brilliant young Japanese Studies graduate student, who was doing these really cool HyperCard stats for teaching Japanese; she actually ended up connecting with Apple and some of her things got commercially published — Nikki Yokokura.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
HIRED_AS→
McMaster humanities computing position
POSITION
Surface Form:
"I applied and I got the job"Evidence Source
and anyway, I applied and I got the job.
Sam Cioran
PERSON
PRODUCED_SOFTWARE→
mcBookmaster language software series
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"had produced a whole series of language software, the first in the mcBookmaster series, which ran on DOS PCs"Evidence Source
He had partly done that because he had produced a whole series of language software, the first in the mcBookmaster series, which ran on DOS PCs and were sort of drill and kill floppy disk-based ones.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
STARTED_POSITION_ON→
August 1st 1994
TIME
Surface Form:
"I started on August 1st 1994"
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
DEFENDED_PHD_ON→
December 23rd 1994
TIME
Surface Form:
"I defended December 23rd and that would have been, I guess, 1994"Evidence Source
I defended December 23rd and that would have been, I guess, 1994, yes, so I started on August 1st 1994, so by December I defended, they converted it to tenure track and the next year they convened some sort of committee, converted it to tenure track and the position.
McMaster humanities computing position
POSITION
HAS_START_DATE→
1994
TIME
Surface Form:
"this was in '94"Evidence Source
It was advertised as a humanities computing position and at this point, so this was in '94,
McMaster humanities computing position
POSITION
FIRST_OF_KIND→
humanities computing position
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"was the first job openly advertised as a humanities computing position"Evidence Source
It was, as far as I can tell, it was the first job openly advertised as a humanities computing position. You know, it wasn't an English position with some computing thrown in, or something like that. It was advertised as a humanities computing position and at this point, so this was in '94,
McMaster University
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Hamilton, Ontario
CITY
Surface Form:
"is in Hamilton Ontario"Evidence Source
So McMaster University, which is in Hamilton Ontario, which is sort of down the lake from Toronto, they advertised a position, it was a two-year position convertible to tenure track.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
DIRECTED→
Humanities, Media and Computing labs at McMaster University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"for 10 years I directed the Humanities, Media and Computing labs at McMaster"Evidence Source
That's when they created the position and so I got hired into a position and for 10 years I directed the Humanities, Media and Computing labs at McMaster.
Sam Cioran
PERSON
CONVERTED_INTO_COMPUTING_LABS→
language labs of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster
FACILITY_GROUP
Surface Form:
"had slowly turned the language labs of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster into computing labs"Evidence Source
They had had, under Sam Cioran, who was actually someone very important at least in Canadian history in some ways, he was very local but very important, he had slowly turned the language labs of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster into computing labs.
Humanities, Media and Computing labs at McMaster University
INSTITUTION
RAN_LABS_FOR→
Humanities students at McMaster University
GROUP
Surface Form:
"ran the labs that were open to all Humanities students"Evidence Source
We had both an academic director, namely me, so we had a bit of an academic mission but we also had a service mission. My staff fixed the Dean's computer; we made sure the networking worked right; we ran the labs that were open to all Humanities students;
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
humanities computing / multimedia unit at McMaster University
DEPARTMENT
BECAME_DEPARTMENT_IN→
2005
TIME
Surface Form:
"we were not a department until 2005"Evidence Source
I can remember one way that that manifested itself was through hiring. Because we were not a department until 2005, whenever we hired a tenure track Prof we got into this, and this happened even when they were hiring me, we got into this situation where we would have a wide ad, we might bring three candidates to campus;
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
DESIGNED_PROGRAMME→
multimedia and communication studies programmes at McMaster University
PROGRAMME_GROUP
Surface Form:
"got base funding first and designed a multimedia programme and then later a communication studies programme"Evidence Source
I got working with the Dean, we got base funding first and designed a multimedia programme and then later a communication studies programme and that's when there was really serious concern that the Faculty was going to cease being a, you know, all the students would be taking multimedia and communication studies and the traditional departments would wither away.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
SERVED_ON→
Dean's Advisory Council, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
COMMITTEE
Surface Form:
"sitting for 10 years on the Dean's advisory council"Evidence Source
I sat on the Dean's Advisory Council, so one sense of things was sitting for 10 years on the Dean's advisory council and having Chairs snipe at me.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
HELD_ADMIN_ROLE→
Assistant to the Dean, Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University
POSITION
Surface Form:
"I was Assistant to the Dean"Evidence Source
So, initially I was not in a department, I was Assistant to the Dean, in my capacity as directing a unit, I was Assistant to the Dean.
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
DESIGNED_COURSES_AT→
Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"had to design three courses which I would teach"Evidence Source
So, it was like most universities, there are a series of committees you had to take things through and especially when I hit Faculty Council. The first time round I brought in three courses; then we brought in some funding and I had to bring nine courses through.
multimedia programme at McMaster University
PROGRAMME
STRUCTURED_AS_COMBINED_HONOURS_WITH→
another Humanities degree
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"you could only do multimedia if you combined it with another Humanities degree, you could not do it alone"Evidence Source
We mitigated that partly, when we were running the multimedia programme we brought it in as a combined honours, you could only do multimedia if you combined it with another Humanities degree, you could not do it alone.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Geoffrey Rockwell
Ray Siemens
PERSON
ORGANISED_CONFERENCE_AT→
conference at Victoria
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"organised a conference at Victoria"
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
PRESENTED_PAPER_AT→
conference at Victoria
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"I once gave a paper at, Ray [Siemens] organised a conference at Victoria"Evidence Source
I once gave a paper at, Ray [Siemens] organised a conference at Victoria back in the early years when he was still at Malaspina University College (now the University of Vancouver Island) and I gave a paper in which I sort of mentioned this idea.
Malaspina University College
INSTITUTION
RENAMED_AS→
University of Vancouver Island
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"now the University of Vancouver Island"Evidence Source
Ray [Siemens] organised a conference at Victoria back in the early years when he was still at Malaspina University College (now the University of Vancouver Island) and I gave a paper in which I sort of mentioned this idea.
Giambattista Vico
PERSON
AUTHORED→
New Science
WORK
Surface Form:
"his New Science"
New Science
WORK
HAS_TOPIC→
birth of institutions
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"is about the birth of institutions"Evidence Source
So, the sort of philosopher of history and science, Giambattista Vico, his New Science is about the birth of institutions and the thing I always find interesting about it;
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
INTRODUCES_COMPUTER→
IBM 360/20 computer
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"the computer arrived, it was a 360/20, which is the smallest in that famous 360 line"Evidence Source
But then the computer arrived, it was a 360/20, which is the smallest in that famous 360 line and the preparations were on-going.
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
ATTENDED_TRAINING_AT→
IBM customer service training
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"went to training classes. But that’s really leading into your second question, “did you receive formal training in programming and computing?” At that time the IBM customer service was excellent and I took courses in operating and programming."Evidence Source
I said I would think about it, thought about it and I said “yes” and went to training classes. But that’s really leading into your second question, “did you receive formal training in programming and computing?” At that time the IBM customer service was excellent and I took courses in operating and programming.
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I was a research assistant at the organisation"
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
CAME_FROM→
Switzerland
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"having come from Switzerland just a year or two before"Evidence Source
I was a research assistant at the organisation, having come from Switzerland just a year or two before
IBM 360/20 computer
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_MEMORY_SIZE→
12 K
MEMORY_SIZE
Surface Form:
"had a memory of only 12 K"
IBM 360/20 computer
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_MEMORY_SIZE→
16 K
MEMORY_SIZE
Surface Form:
"later augmented to 16 K"Evidence Source
In spite of its size, the 360/20 had a memory of only 12 K, later augmented to 16 K.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
New York
CITY
Surface Form:
"at the Modern Languages Association (MLA) in New York"Evidence Source
It was about 1968 or 1969 and I was at the Modern Languages Association (MLA) in New York.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
BEGINS_COMPUTERISATION_AROUND→
1968 or 1969
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"was in the process of introducing a computer"Evidence Source
It was about 1968 or 1969 and I was at the Modern Languages Association (MLA) in New York. The MLA at that time was in the process of introducing a computer, mainly to help with administrative tasks.
MLA membership list
DATASET
HAS_SIZE→
about 30,000 members
QUANTITY
Surface Form:
"the first task was to convert the membership list, an address list of about 30,000 members"Evidence Source
the first task was to convert the membership list, an address list of about 30,000 members
MLA membership list
DATASET
CONVERTED_TO→
punched cards
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"Those were all punched on cards."Evidence Source
Those were all punched on cards.
MLA membership list
DATASET
STORED_ON→
addressograph machine metal plates
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"which at that time were still on metal plates on what we called an addressograph machine"Evidence Source
which at that time were still on metal plates on what we called an addressograph machine.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
MLA membership list
DATASET
CONVERTED_TO_COMPUTER_PROCESSING→
administrative computing system at MLA
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"we successfully converted the membership list and went on to other administrative tasks"Evidence Source
I took the courses and we successfully converted the membership list and went on to other administrative tasks.
IBM
COMPANY
HAS_TRAINING_CENTER_IN→
Manhattan
CITY_DISTRICT
Surface Form:
"IBM had a classroom building in Manhattan"
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
ATTENDED_TRAINING_AT→
IBM classroom building in Manhattan
PLACE
Surface Form:
"I took courses, first in operating and then in programming"Evidence Source
Yes, IBM had a classroom building in Manhattan and I took courses, first in operating and then in programming.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
IBM training centre mainframe
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_SINGLE_MAINFRAME→
IBM classroom building in Manhattan
PLACE
Surface Form:
"they only had one mainframe available"Evidence Source
I remember another frustration was that they only had one mainframe available.
IBM computing courses in Manhattan
PROGRAMME
ATTENDED_BY_EMPLOYEES_OF→
businesses all over New York that had ordered IBM equipment
ORGANISATION_GROUP
Surface Form:
"They were from businesses all over New York that had ordered IBM equipment recently"Evidence Source
They were from businesses all over New York that had ordered IBM equipment recently, or at that point, and needed to programme.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
IBM computing courses in Manhattan
PROGRAMME
HAS_GENDER_BALANCE→
approximately equal numbers of men and women
DEMOGRAPHIC_PATTERN
Surface Form:
"it was practically 50/50. It was pretty balanced."Evidence Source
As I recall it was practically 50/50. It was pretty balanced.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
IBM computing courses in Manhattan
PROGRAMME
COVERS_TOPICS→
computer operation and programming
FIELD_GROUP
Surface Form:
"It was billed as operation (which required a different set of skills to make those huge monsters run) and programming"Evidence Source
It was billed as operation (which required a different set of skills to make those huge monsters run) and programming (the programming was, at that time, nothing very complex but we had to do something.)
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
IBM computing courses in Manhattan
PROGRAMME
HAS_DURATION→
5–6 months
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"about 5 months, 6 months"Evidence Source
Those courses, on average, I would say about 5 months, 6 months.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
IBM computing courses in Manhattan
PROGRAMME
HAS_MEETING_FREQUENCY→
two or three times a week
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"twice or three times a week"Evidence Source
No, it was sort of twice or three times a week.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Modern Languages Association (MLA) administrative tasks
PROCESS
CONVERTED_TO_COMPUTER_PROCESSING→
computing
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"converting all the administrative tasks (accounting, budgeting, membership services etc.) so that they could be done with computing"Evidence Source
As we worked on converting all the administrative tasks (accounting, budgeting, membership services etc.) so that they could be done with computing
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
CONTRACTED_FIRM_TO_COMPOSE→
outside firm composing MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"we also had an outside firm compose the MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)"Evidence Source
As we worked on converting all the administrative tasks (accounting, budgeting, membership services etc.) so that they could be done with computing, we also had an outside firm compose the MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB).
MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
DATABASE
COMPOSED_USING→
tape with typesetting codes for phototypesetting
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"we would prepare a tape with all the typesetting codes and they would then set the type from this tape"Evidence Source
By ‘composing’ I mean that we would prepare a tape with all the typesetting codes and they would then set the type from this tape.
MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
DATABASE
MADE_AVAILABLE_ONLINE_BY→
Lockheed
COMPANY
Surface Form:
"they made it available online as the first international database in the Humanities"Evidence Source
I drove to Lockheed and gave them the tape and they made it available online as the first international database in the Humanities.
Wilson Company
PUBLISHER
PUBLISHES_FOR→
library world
FIELD
Surface Form:
"with the Wilson Company in New York, a publisher of articles and books for the library world."
Wilson Company
PUBLISHER
LOCATED_IN→
New York
CITY
Surface Form:
"the Wilson Company in New York"Evidence Source
I then negotiated, now we’re moving into the late 1970s or early 1980s, with the Wilson Company in New York, a publisher of articles and books for the library world.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
FIRST_TO_MAKE_REFERENCE_WORK_ONLINE→
reference work in the Humanities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"The MLA was the first organisation to make a reference work in the Humanities available online."Evidence Source
The MLA was the first organisation to make a reference work in the Humanities available online.
Wilson Quarterly
JOURNAL
HAS_ONLINE_SERVICE→
Wilson Quarterly online service
SERVICE
Surface Form:
"The Wilson Quarterly also had an online service."Evidence Source
The Wilson Quarterly also had an online service.
Lockheed
COMPANY
HOSTED_ONLINE_DATABASES→
online databases
DATABASE_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"They made databases available for online searching."Evidence Source
They made databases available for online searching.
MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
DATABASE
IS_FIRST_ONLINE_DATABASE_IN_FIELD→
Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"made it available online as the first international database in the Humanities"Evidence Source
they made it available online as the first international database in the Humanities.
MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
DATABASE
DISTRIBUTED_AS_CD_BY→
Wilson Company
PUBLISHER
Surface Form:
"We produced the first CD of the MLA IB to be made available through Wilson."Evidence Source
We produced the first CD of the MLA IB to be made available through Wilson.
MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
DATABASE
IS_LARGEST_REFERENCE_WORK_FOR→
English, Foreign Languages, Folklore and Linguistics
FIELD_GROUP
Surface Form:
"was at that time the largest reference work for English, Foreign Languages, Folklore and Linguistics"Evidence Source
we produced the MLA IB, which was at that time the largest reference work for English, Foreign Languages, Folklore and Linguistics.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Lockheed
COMPANY
Surface Form:
"We worked at that time with a company called Lockheed, the airplane manufacturer in California."
Lockheed
COMPANY
LOCATED_IN→
California
STATE
Surface Form:
"the airplane manufacturer in California"Evidence Source
We worked at that time with a company called Lockheed, the airplane manufacturer in California.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
DIALOG
SERVICE
IS_SPINOFF_OF→
Lockheed database hosting service
SERVICE
Surface Form:
"Lockheed spun off that service and called it DIALOG."Evidence Source
I couldn’t go elsewhere and then Lockheed spun off that service and called it DIALOG.
Lockheed
COMPANY
HOSTS_DATABASES→
databases from all over
DATABASE_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"saw a need to host databases from all over"Evidence Source
Lockheed, as I understand it, at that time got into computing and machine readable this and machine readable that and saw a need to host databases from all over.
Lockheed
COMPANY
SERVES_AS_DATABASE_HOST→
online databases
DATABASE_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"they, in fact, became the host"Evidence Source
There was no such thing at that time but they, in fact, became the host.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
PAID_NO_UPFRONT_FEES_TO→
Lockheed
COMPANY
Surface Form:
"it didn’t cost a thing"Evidence Source
No, as I recall, it didn’t cost a thing. I mean, they put it up online and the terms of the fee structure was that they somehow got a part of the hourly usage from each user.
Lockheed
COMPANY
RECEIVES_REVENUE_FROM→
hourly usage fees from each user
BUSINESS_MODEL
Surface Form:
"they somehow got a part of the hourly usage from each user"Evidence Source
they somehow got a part of the hourly usage from each user. So, Lockheed got a cut too and they got their money in the end that way.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
MLA International Bibliography (MLA IB)
DATABASE
IS_ONLY_HUMANITIES_DATABASE_AT_TIME→
Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"it was, at that time, the only exclusively Humanities database."Evidence Source
The MLA IB was our most extensive work and it was, at that time, the only exclusively Humanities database.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
IS_FIRST_HUMANITIES_ORGANISATION_USING_ONLINE_DATABASES→
online database services such as Lockheed's
SERVICE
Surface Form:
"We prided ourselves on being the first from the Humanities"Evidence Source
We prided ourselves on being the first from the Humanities because all the others that came before us were in Science, Social Science or other fields.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
PROJECT
HAS_EARLY_ACTIVITY_AT→
Modern Languages Association (MLA) conference room
PLACE
Surface Form:
"the early beginnings of TEI were really at the MLA in a conference room that I made available to that group"Evidence Source
And so the early beginnings of TEI were really at the MLA in a conference room that I made available to that group
Apple
COMPANY
EXHIBITED_AT→
MLA annual meeting computer-related exhibits
EVENT
Surface Form:
"Apple was one of the first to agree to come."Evidence Source
At that time we had maybe three or four, I remember Apple was one of the first to agree to come.
Joseph Raben
PERSON
FOUNDED→
CHum (Computers and the Humanities journal)
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"He founded the journal CHum"
Joseph Raben
PERSON
ACTIVE_IN→
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"he was also very active in the ACH."Evidence Source
He founded the journal CHum; he was also very active in the ACH.
Joseph Raben
PERSON
TAUGHT_AT→
Queen's College
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"he was a professor at Queen’s College."Evidence Source
He was the person who influenced me greatly, he was a professor at Queen’s College.
Computational work on word concordances, frequency studies and authorship tracking
FIELD
USES_COMPUTERS_IN→
Humanities research
FIELD
Surface Form:
"a lot of work being done with the aid of computers, for example, word concordances, frequency studies and authorship tracking"Evidence Source
I became aware of a lot of work being done with the aid of computers, for example, word concordances, frequency studies and authorship tracking.
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
FACILITATED_EARLY_MEETING_OF→
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I made the conference room of the MLA available to a small group and that turned out to be the founding, not the founding meeting, but the beginning of the Text Encoding Initiative."Evidence Source
I made the conference room of the MLA available to a small group and that turned out to be the founding, not the founding meeting, but the beginning of the Text Encoding Initiative.
MLA annual meeting
EVENT
INCLUDES_EXHIBIT→
exhibit of scholarly books by book publishers
EVENT
Surface Form:
"Parallel to the convention we had book publishers organize a huge exhibit of scholarly books."Evidence Source
Parallel to the convention we had book publishers organize a huge exhibit of scholarly books.
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
SERVED_ON_BOARD_OF→
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I was on the board"Evidence Source
That was also the time that the journal CHum came out, and we organised an Association of Computers and the Humanities. I was on the board
MLA annual meeting
EVENT
HAS_TYPICAL_ATTENDANCE→
about 10,000 members
QUANTITY
Surface Form:
"it usually draws about 10,000 members."Evidence Source
The MLA has an annual meeting, a fairly large gathering of its members, it usually draws about 10,000 members.
Computers and the Humanities group at MLA
GROUP
PART_OF→
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"there was a very active group of people in the MLA, dealing with computers and the Humanities."Evidence Source
Very early on, there was a very active group of people in the MLA, dealing with computers and the Humanities.
Computational work on word concordances, frequency studies and authorship tracking
FIELD
CONDUCTED_PRIMARILY_AT→
universities
INSTITUTION_TYPE
Surface Form:
"most of that work was done at universities"Evidence Source
We began to dabble in all of this but not very seriously because most of that work was done at universities.
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
ORGANIZED_COMPUTER_EXHIBITS_AT→
MLA annual meeting
EVENT
Surface Form:
"We invited hardware manufacturers, software publishers and related industries to exhibit at the convention."Evidence Source
We invited hardware manufacturers, software publishers and related industries to exhibit at the convention.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Computers in the Humanities
FIELD
MET_WITH_HOSTILITY_FROM→
many humanities scholars
GROUP
Surface Form:
"I experienced a lot of hostility early on, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I heard comments along the lines of “computers have no business in Humanities disciplines, computing is a scientific instrument and we don’t want to have anything to do with it”."Evidence Source
First of all, I experienced a lot of hostility early on, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I heard comments along the lines of “computers have no business in Humanities disciplines, computing is a scientific instrument and we don’t want to have anything to do with it”.
Computing-related work in the Humanities
FIELD
RECEIVES_LITTLE_RECOGNITION_IN→
Humanities scholarly community
GROUP
Surface Form:
"any kind of work, be that research with the help of a computer, or the creation of software, or anything related to computing, at that time anyway, got very little recognition."Evidence Source
So any kind of work, be that research with the help of a computer, or the creation of software, or anything related to computing, at that time anyway, got very little recognition.
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
WORKS_IN_PROGRAMME→
Scholarly Communication and the Technology Information programme
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"That was (or is, I’m still doing that) in the Scholarly Communication and the Technology Information programme."Evidence Source
That was (or is, I’m still doing that) in the Scholarly Communication and the Technology Information programme.
Computing-related work in the Humanities
FIELD
FACES_HOSTILITY_IN_PERIOD→
1960s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"the hostility against computing early on in the 1960s was profound."Evidence Source
That was my experience; the hostility against computing early on in the 1960s was profound.
Scholarly Communication and the Technology Information programme
PROGRAMME
FUNDS_OR_SUPPORTS→
Project Bamboo
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"They included the sophisticated digitisation of medieval manuscript collections, infrastructure problems and projects like Bamboo"
Scholarly Communication and the Technology Information programme
PROGRAMME
FUNDS_OR_SUPPORTS→
digitisation of medieval manuscript collections
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"They included the sophisticated digitisation of medieval manuscript collections"Evidence Source
They included the sophisticated digitisation of medieval manuscript collections, infrastructure problems and projects like Bamboo
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
HOLDS_POSITION_AT→
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
FOUNDATION
Surface Form:
"when I became a Senior Advisor to the Mellon Foundation."Evidence Source
We’re talking now about the 1990s, and later, when I became a Senior Advisor to the Mellon Foundation.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
computer-aided instruction
FIELD
HAS_DECLINED_OR_CEASED→
as an independent field
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the field as such really ceased to exist."Evidence Source
Of course, now things have developed in so many other ways and the field as such really ceased to exist.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)
FOUNDATION
HAS_MISSION→
support girls in 11th and 12th grade to choose an engineering career
MISSION
Surface Form:
"we have an explicit mission to support women, I mean, girls really, in 11th and 12th grade, to choose an engineering career"Evidence Source
In my work at the EIF we have an explicit mission to support women, I mean, girls really, in 11th and 12th grade, to choose an engineering career
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
IS_PRESIDENT_OF→
Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)
FOUNDATION
Surface Form:
"I’m the President of the foundation"Evidence Source
I’m the President of the foundation so I think my views are well known.
Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)
FOUNDATION
FUNDS→
organisations with programmes to attract and retain women in Engineering
ORGANISATION_GROUP
Surface Form:
"we continue giving grants to organisations that have innovative programmes in helping to attract and retain women in Engineering."Evidence Source
Large organisations have taken up the cause and we continue giving grants to organisations that have innovative programmes in helping to attract and retain women in Engineering.
Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)
FOUNDATION
FUNDS→
STEM programmes (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"we’re giving grants to the so-called STEM programmes – Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics – to change the environment in the classroom"Evidence Source
So, we’re giving grants to the so-called STEM programmes – Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics – to change the environment in the classroom
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
library automation projects
PROJECT_GROUP
CONVERTED_CARD_CATALOGUES_TO_DIGITAL→
card catalogues
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"earlier projects that dealt with what we used to call library automation, where card catalogues were being converted to digital form or to computer-readable form"Evidence Source
I also worked with earlier projects that dealt with what we used to call library automation, where card catalogues were being converted to digital form or to computer-readable form.
Digital Humanities (DH)
FIELD
AVOIDS_HOSTILE_ENVIRONMENT_FOR_WOMEN→
traditional Engineering field's biased atmosphere
FIELD
Surface Form:
"In DH we didn’t fall into the trap in the first place. We managed to stay out of it, luckily."Evidence Source
It is extremely different than the traditional Engineering field, there we have slow-going change in the atmosphere and climate. In DH we didn’t fall into the trap in the first place. We managed to stay out of it, luckily.
Digital Humanities (DH) projects
PROJECT_GROUP
HAVE_MAJORITY_WOMEN_PARTICIPANTS→
women participants
GROUP
Surface Form:
"they really did not have the preponderance of men that you would expect in a scientific environment. The majority were women and very effective women."Evidence Source
When I think of the DH projects that I’ve had to deal with, they really did not have the preponderance of men that you would expect in a scientific environment. The majority were women and very effective women.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hans Rutimann
Hans Rutimann
PERSON
INVOLVED_IN_FIELD→
computing in the Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I’m glad to still be involved in what I would call the advancement of computing in the Humanities."Evidence Source
I’m glad to still be involved in what I would call the advancement of computing in the Humanities.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Harold Short
PERSON
ARRIVED_IN_COUNTRY_IN→
1972
TIME
Surface Form:
"[arriving in 1972]"Evidence Source
[arriving in 1972]
Harold Short
PERSON
HAS_DEGREE_IN→
Mathematics, Computing and Systems
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"did an Open University degree in Mathematics, Computing and Systems"
Harold Short
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
Open University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"did an Open University degree"Evidence Source
And so I had a series of jobs in information technology and at the same time did an Open University degree in Mathematics, Computing and Systems.
Harold Short
PERSON
MOVED_TO→
United Kingdom
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"took the move to the United Kingdom [arriving in 1972]"Evidence Source
and took the move to the United Kingdom [arriving in 1972],
job advertised at King's College London that combined computing and humanities
POSITION
COMBINES_FIELDS→
computing and humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"that combined computing and humanities"Evidence Source
but I saw a job advertised at King's College London that combined computing and humanities.
Harold Short
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
International Computers
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I worked for International Computers"
Harold Short
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
British Broadcasting Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"and then for the British Broadcasting Corporation"Evidence Source
I worked for International Computers and then for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Zimbabwe
COUNTRY
WAS_KNOWN_AS→
Rhodesia
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"Rhodesia as it was [known then]"Evidence Source
So, when I came to leave Zimbabwe in 1971, [or] Rhodesia as it was [known then], and took the move to the United Kingdom [arriving in 1972],
Harold Short
PERSON
HAS_UNDERGRADUATE_STUDIES_IN→
French and English
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"my undergraduate career, which was in French and English"Evidence Source
That actually goes back to my undergraduate career, which was in French and English.
university in Central Africa
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Zimbabwe
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"at university in Central Africa, in the country that is now Zimbabwe"Evidence Source
This was at university in Central Africa, in the country that is now Zimbabwe.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Harold Short
PERSON
STUDIED_FOR→
postgraduate certificate in education
QUALIFICATION
Surface Form:
"the year I spent doing a postgraduate certificate in education"Evidence Source
But then, I think probably the more fundamental thing was the year I spent doing a postgraduate certificate in education,
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
PIONEER_OF→
European humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"one of the pioneers of European humanities computing"Evidence Source
A man called Roy Wisbey, who was one of the pioneers of European humanities computing,
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing
RESEARCH_CENTRE
Surface Form:
"he had started something called the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing"Evidence Source
and at Cambridge he had started something called the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing,
Harold Short
PERSON
WORKED_FOR→
BBC engineering
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"I worked for BBC engineering"Evidence Source
and in particular, I worked for BBC engineering, which for historical reasons was where the capital budget of the BBC resided,
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing
RESEARCH_CENTRE
HAS_RESEARCH_FOCUS→
concordances
METHOD
Surface Form:
"it was mainly to do with concordances"Evidence Source
And so it was mainly to do with concordances and that kind of thing,
Queen Elizabeth College
INSTITUTION
BECAME_INDEPENDENT→
University of London colleges system
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"then it had become independent"Evidence Source
and then it had become independent in the way that a lot of University of London colleges did.
reconstituted computing services group at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
SUPPORTED_FIELD→
humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"had a role [in] supporting humanities"Evidence Source
as part of this merger, Roy Wisbey as a Vice Principal ensured that one of the reconstituted computing services groups had a role [in] supporting humanities,
Computer Science Department at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
WAS_IN_DANGER_OF_BEING_DISACCREDITED_BY→
British Computer Society
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"it was so bad that it was in danger of being disaccredited by the British Computer Society"Evidence Source
at that stage it was so bad that it was in danger of being disaccredited by the British Computer Society.
Harold Short
PERSON
STARTED_WORKING_AT_IN→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"by the time I got to King's in '88"Evidence Source
but nevertheless, it meant that there was already this long tradition by the time I got to King's in '88,
King's College London
INSTITUTION
IS_TOP_HUMANITIES_INSTITUTION_IN→
United Kingdom
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"King's is one of the places in the UK, where humanities has always been of particular excellence, it has always been, along with UCL and Oxford and Cambridge, one of the top four or five humanities institutions in Research Assessment Exercises"Evidence Source
fortunately, King's is one of the places in the UK, where humanities has always been of particular excellence, it has always been, along with UCL and Oxford and Cambridge, one of the top four or five humanities institutions in Research Assessment Exercises and that kind of thing.
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
University of Cambridge
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"he'd been at Cambridge"
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"before he came to King's as Professor of German"
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
HAS_TITLE→
Professor of German
POSITION
Surface Form:
"Professor of German"Evidence Source
he'd been at Cambridge before he came to King's as Professor of German,
BBC engineering
DEPARTMENT
MANAGED_CAPITAL_BUDGET_OF→
British Broadcasting Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"was where the capital budget of the BBC resided"Evidence Source
I worked for BBC engineering, which for historical reasons was where the capital budget of the BBC resided,
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
WAS_VICE_PRINCIPAL_OF→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Roy Wisbey happened to be a Vice Principal in 1986"Evidence Source
In fact, one of the reasons for the job that I applied for was that Roy Wisbey happened to be a Vice Principal in 1986,
Harold Short
PERSON
HELD_POSITIONS_AT→
British Broadcasting Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"in the BBC I was first a programmer, then a systems analyst, then a systems manager"Evidence Source
In one sense that's a difficult question to answer because in the BBC I was first a programmer, then a systems analyst, then a systems manager,
King's College for Women
INSTITUTION
WAS_PART_OF→
King's College
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"it was the women's part of King's College"Evidence Source
it was the women's part of King's College
Harold Short
PERSON
TASKED_WITH→
undergraduate programme in humanities and computing
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"One of my first specific tasks was to work with the Humanities Faculty to develop an undergraduate programme in humanities and computing"
Humanities Faculty at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
DEVELOPED→
undergraduate programme in humanities and computing
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"to develop an undergraduate programme in humanities and computing"Evidence Source
One of my first specific tasks was to work with the Humanities Faculty to develop an undergraduate programme in humanities and computing.
Queen Elizabeth College
INSTITUTION
STARTED_AS→
King's College for Women
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Queen Elizabeth College actually had started as King's College for Women"Evidence Source
Queen Elizabeth College actually had started as King's College for Women,
Assistant Director in the Computing Services for Humanities and Information Management
POSITION
POSITION_AT_INSTITUTION→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the job I applied for was an Assistant Director in the Computing Services for Humanities and Information Management"Evidence Source
so the job I applied for was an Assistant Director in the Computing Services for Humanities and Information Management.
project for the BBC transmitters
PROJECT
INTEGRATED_DATA_FROM→
BBC transmitting stations
FACILITY
Surface Form:
"integrating data from all the different transmitting stations"Evidence Source
The one exception was a big project I was involved in for the BBC transmitters. [It involved] talking and looking at integrating data from all the different transmitting stations as part of their process of starting to automate more and more of the transmitting stations
use of computers in the humanities at King's College London
PRACTICE
HAS_START_PERIOD→
late sixties, early seventies
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"going back to the late sixties, early seventies"Evidence Source
this was at King's going back to the late sixties, early seventies.
King's College London
INSTITUTION
HAS_TRADITION_OF→
use of computers in the humanities
PRACTICE
Surface Form:
"there had been a long tradition of the use of computers in the humanities"Evidence Source
when I got to King's, of course, there had been a long tradition of the use of computers in the humanities, this was at King's going back to the late sixties, early seventies.
Chelsea College of Art
INSTITUTION
MERGED_WITH→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"a merger of Chelsea College of Art, Queen Elizabeth College and King's"
Queen Elizabeth College
INSTITUTION
MERGED_WITH→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"a merger of Chelsea College of Art, Queen Elizabeth College and King's"Evidence Source
when they were discussing a merger of Chelsea College of Art, Queen Elizabeth College and King's.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
first joint international conference of ALLC and ACH
CONFERENCE
HELD_AT→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"and it was the University Toronto"Evidence Source
and it was the University Toronto
first joint international conference of ALLC and ACH
CONFERENCE
HAD_ATTENDANCE→
450 people
QUANTITY
Surface Form:
"there were 450 people there"Evidence Source
and there were 450 people there,
1989
TIME
IS_YEAR_OF→
first joint international conference of ALLC and ACH
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"'89 was the first joint international conference of ALLC and ACH"Evidence Source
because '89 was the first joint international conference of ALLC and ACH,
first joint international conference of ALLC and ACH
CONFERENCE
HAD_ASSOCIATED_WORKSHOPS→
week of workshops before and a week of workshops afterwards
EVENT
Surface Form:
"there was a week of workshops before and a week of workshops afterwards"Evidence Source
there was a week of workshops before and a week of workshops afterwards.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Susan Hockey
PERSON
CHAIR_OF→
ALLC
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"she later became chair and was chair for 13 years"Evidence Source
although I'm not absolutely certain but of course she later became chair and was chair for 13 years.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WAS_INVOLVED_IN→
ALLC and ACH associations
ORGANISATION_GROUP
Surface Form:
"she was very involved in the Associations"Evidence Source
and she was very involved in the Associations and so on.
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
ELECTED_PRESIDENT_OF→
ALLC
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"was elected president"Evidence Source
And then Antonio Zampolli, the late Antonio Zampolli, was elected president.
University of Oxford
INSTITUTION
WAS_LEADING_INSTITUTION_IN→
humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"Oxford would have been thought of as the leading institution"Evidence Source
At the stage I would have thought Oxford would have been thought of as the leading institution,
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ELECTED_SECRETARY_OF→
ALLC
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Susan might have been the first secretary"Evidence Source
I think Susan might have been the first secretary,
University of Oxford
INSTITUTION
HAD_HUMANITIES_COMPUTING_ACTIVITIES→
humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"In the UK, there was Oxford, Cambridge, and King's, were the three places where there were humanities computing activities going [on]"
University of Cambridge
INSTITUTION
HAD_HUMANITIES_COMPUTING_ACTIVITIES→
humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"In the UK, there was Oxford, Cambridge, and King's, were the three places where there were humanities computing activities going [on]"
King's College London
INSTITUTION
HAD_HUMANITIES_COMPUTING_ACTIVITIES→
humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"In the UK, there was Oxford, Cambridge, and King's, were the three places where there were humanities computing activities going [on]"Evidence Source
In the UK, there was Oxford, Cambridge, and King's, were the three places where there were humanities computing activities going [on].
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
CHAIR_OF→
ALLC
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Roy was elected the first chair"Evidence Source
Roy was elected the first chair.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
University of Oxford
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Susan Hockey was there"Evidence Source
Susan Hockey was there,
meeting of ALLC
EVENT
HELD_AT→
King's College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"The meeting of ALLC happened to have been at King's"Evidence Source
The meeting of ALLC happened to have been at King's
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Centre for Computing Humanities at Toronto
RESEARCH_CENTRE
WAS_LEADING_INSTITUTION_IN→
computing in the humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was seen as probably the leading institution in the world at that time"Evidence Source
and the Centre for Computing Humanities at Toronto was seen as probably the leading institution in the world at that time.
Humanist
PROJECT
WAS_A_FEW_YEARS_OLD→
a few years old
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"Humanist was a few years old"Evidence Source
Humanist was a few years old
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WAS_BASED_IN→
Toronto
CITY
Surface Form:
"Willard McCarty was there then"Evidence Source
Toronto was certainly one of the places that people thought of being, as Willard McCarty was there then.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Barry Ive
PERSON
HELD_POSITION→
vice principle
POSITION
Surface Form:
"by this stage he was a vice principle"Evidence Source
a man called Barry Ive, by this stage he was a vice principle,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
BECAME_DEPARTMENT_IN→
2002
TIME
Surface Form:
"from 2002 we became, in April in 2002, we were formally brought into the School of Humanities as an academic department"Evidence Source
And so from 2002 we became, in April in 2002, we were formally brought into the School of Humanities as an academic department.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
TAUGHT→
undergraduate programmes
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"we were teaching undergraduate programmes"Evidence Source
because of all the academic stuff we were doing, we were teaching undergraduate programmes,
Information Services Department
DEPARTMENT
AIMED_TO_BE→
service delivery department
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"ISD, Information Services, needed to refocus as a service delivery department"Evidence Source
but he thought ISD, Information Services, needed to refocus as a service delivery department,
Harold Short
PERSON
ATTENDED→
conference in Australia in 2001
EVENT
Surface Form:
"just as I was leaving for a conference in Australia in 2001"Evidence Source
I'd heard the news about the IS Director's viewpoint just as I was leaving for a conference in Australia in 2001,
Research Unit in Humanities Computing
DEPARTMENT
FUNDED_BY→
School of Humanities at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"It agreed to fund one post"
Research Unit in Humanities Computing
DEPARTMENT
FUNDED_BY→
computing centre at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"the computing centre agreed to one of my team's posts being dedicated"Evidence Source
It agreed to fund one post and the computing centre agreed to one of my team's posts being dedicated to something we called the Research Unit in Humanities Computing.
computing services at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
MERGED_INTO→
Information Services
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"the merger of computing services with the library into something called Information Services"
Harold Short
PERSON
HELD_POSITION→
Assistant Director of computing services
POSITION
Surface Form:
"as Assistant Director of computing services"Evidence Source
one of the things that I got very involved in, as Assistant Director of computing services was the merger of computing services with the library into something called Information Services,
Director of Information Services
POSITION
PERCEIVED_AS_NOT_FITTING→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"decided that the Centre for Computing in the Humanities was not a good fit"Evidence Source
So then there was a new Director of Information Services in the early 2000s, who decided that the Centre for Computing in the Humanities was not a good fit,
Research Unit in Humanities Computing
DEPARTMENT
RENAMED_AS→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"the change of name from Research Unit in Humanities Computing to Centre for Computing in the Humanities"Evidence Source
So, the expansion is what led to the change of name from Research Unit in Humanities Computing to Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
Barry Ive
PERSON
HELD_POSITION→
Head of the School of Humanities
POSITION
Surface Form:
"had previously been Head of the School of Humanities"Evidence Source
someone who had previously been Head of the School of Humanities and very supportive of the development of, first of all, the Research Unit in Humanities Computing and then the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, a man called Barry Ive,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
REJECTED_SERVICE_ROLE→
service role in projects
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"we were not a service, we didn't have a service role in our projects, we only took on projects if it was as equal partners"Evidence Source
the crucial thing from the very outset is that we were not a service, we didn't have a service role in our projects, we only took on projects if it was as equal partners.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
RENAMED_AS→
Department of Digital Humanities
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"the change of name from CCH to Department of Digital Humanities, DDH"Evidence Source
We actually agreed the change of name from CCH to Department of Digital Humanities, DDH,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
AGREED_NAME_CHANGE_IN→
late 2009, early 2010
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in late 2009, early 2010"Evidence Source
We actually agreed the change of name from CCH to Department of Digital Humanities, DDH, we thought that would be easy for people to remember, in late 2009, early 2010.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
DEVELOPED→
master's programme
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"we had just announced the development of a master's programme"Evidence Source
we had just announced the development of a master's programme,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
PART_OF→
School of Humanities at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"we were formally brought into the School of Humanities as an academic department"Evidence Source
we were formally brought into the School of Humanities as an academic department.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
INVOLVED_IN→
research projects
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we were involved in large numbers of, by this stage, large numbers of research projects"Evidence Source
we were involved in large numbers of, by this stage, large numbers of research projects,
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Fine Rolls of Henry the 3rd project
PROJECT
IS_FLAGSHIP_PROJECT_OF→
Arts and Humanities Research Council
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"one of their flagship projects"Evidence Source
And now, the AHRC talk about it as one of their flagship projects,
Janet Nelson
PERSON
IS_FORMER_PRESIDENT_OF→
Royal Historical Society
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"who is a former president of the Royal Historical Society"Evidence Source
and who is a former president of the Royal Historical Society,
Arts and Humanities Research Council
ORGANISATION
HAS_GRANT_CEILING→
funding ceiling
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"has a ceiling"Evidence Source
because at that time the Arts and Humanities Research [Council] (AHRC), well they still do, has a ceiling, so your whole bit had to be under a particular limit.
fine (in the period of Henry the 3rd)
CONCEPT
WAS_PAYMENT_TO→
the king
PERSON_ROLE
Surface Form:
"a fine at stage was any kind of payment to the king"Evidence Source
If you don't know, a fine at stage was any kind of payment to the king,
Janet Nelson
PERSON
IS_LEADING_HISTORIAN_OF→
Carolingian history
FIELD
Surface Form:
"probably the world's leading historian of Carolingian history"Evidence Source
one of the, probably the world's leading historian of Carolingian history.
Janet Nelson
PERSON
IS_FELLOW_OF→
British Academy
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"who is a fellow of the British Academy"Evidence Source
there's a lovely lady called Janet Nelson who is a fellow of the British Academy
fine (modern sense)
CONCEPT
IS_PENALTY_PAYMENT→
penalty payment
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"these days it's a penalty payment"Evidence Source
these days it's a penalty payment.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Anne Welsh
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
DEPARTMENT
EMBEDDED_IN→
School of Humanities at King's College London
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"they wanted us to come in as part of the school"Evidence Source
by the time the issue came up of whether the information services would keep us or not, the School of Humanities already believed that we were so essential to their future that they wanted us to come in as part of the school.
John Unsworth
PERSON
COINED_TERM→
first generation resources
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"what John Unsworth has called “first generation resources.”"Evidence Source
in a sense that it was an individual doing things that he or she was interested in doing and producing, what John Unsworth has called “first generation resources.”
centres for computing in the humanities
RESEARCH_CENTRE
NOT_EMBEDDED_IN→
their host institutions
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"there were thriving centres for computing in the humanities, but they weren't embedded, they were appendices to the institution"Evidence Source
there were thriving centres for computing in the humanities, but they weren't embedded, they were appendices to the institution,
Anne Welsh
Anne Welsh
PERSON
HAS_PROFESSION→
librarian
PROFESSION
Surface Form:
"I'm a librarian"
Anne Welsh
PERSON
HAS_BEEN→
library manager
PROFESSION
Surface Form:
"I've been a library manager"Evidence Source
although I should have because I'm a librarian and I've been a library manager
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Harold Short
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE→
early 1970s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"began getting funding in the early 1970s"
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"had been funding"Evidence Source
The NEH had been funding some of these projects since the 1970s, primarily, one large text corpus, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG),Footnote1 which began getting funding in the early 1970s.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
project to do concordances to the works of Darwin
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"funded a project to do concordances to the works of Darwin"
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
project to do concordances to the works of William Faulkner
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"funded a project to do concordances to the works of Darwin and to the works of William Faulkner"Evidence Source
We funded a project to do concordances to the works of Darwin and to the works of William Faulkner, for instance, and then from the output of the computer they created print products.Footnote2
Helen Agüera
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"joined the NEH in 1979"Evidence Source
Well, when I joined the NEH in 1979 I had no personal experience with computing technology.
Division of Research programme (NEH)
PROGRAMME
SUPPORTS→
preparation of research tools, reference works and scholarly editions
ACTIVITY
Surface Form:
"supported the preparation of research tools, reference works and scholarly editions"Evidence Source
You know, I started working in a programme in the “Division of Research” that supported the preparation of research tools, reference works and scholarly editions.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Division of Research programme (NEH)
PROGRAMME
INTRODUCED_GUIDELINES→
guidelines for projects that involved the use of computers
POLICY
Surface Form:
"introduced a separate set of guidelines for projects that involved the use of computers"Evidence Source
Now, I believe it was probably in 1979, just shortly after I joined NEH, that the programme introduced a separate set of guidelines for projects that involved the use of computers.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"made many awards to it"Evidence Source
So, the TLG as a pure database was obviously was a little different, but, because it had the support of the entire field at the time (it was always well-received) we made many awards to it.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
INTENDED_FOR_ELECTRONIC_USE→
electronic use rather than as a printed work
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"was the only one that really was intended to be used electronically rather than as a printed work that anyone could use in a library, or wherever"Evidence Source
The TLG was a little bit different because it was the only one that really was intended to be used electronically rather than as a printed work that anyone could use in a library, or wherever.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Classics
FIELD
USES_CORPUS_FOR_RESEARCH→
whole corpus of Greek
CORPUS
Surface Form:
"being able to query the whole corpus of Greek was such an important part of the scholarly work they did"Evidence Source
For Classics at that time being able to query the whole corpus of Greek was such an important part of the scholarly work they did.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
ORGANISATION
ORGANIZES_CONFERENCES→
conferences in the United States
EVENT_TYPE
Surface Form:
"was having conferences"Evidence Source
At the time the main organisation that was having conferences, at least here in the United States, was the ACH.
Helen Agüera
PERSON
ATTENDED→
ACH meeting at South Carolina (1987)
EVENT
Surface Form:
"my first recollection of going to a meeting was in 1987 at South Carolina"Evidence Source
I went to an early 1980s conference, but my first recollection of going to a meeting was in 1987 at South Carolina.
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
PROJECT
ORGANIZED_MEETING→
international meeting on guidelines for encoding text in the humanities
EVENT
Surface Form:
"to hold an international meeting"Evidence Source
That planning grant was for TEI to hold an international meeting.
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
PROJECT
APPLIED_FOR_FUNDING_FROM→
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"to apply to NEH for support"
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"funded the first planning grant to them"Evidence Source
That started the opportunity for the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to apply to NEH for support and we funded the first planning grant to them.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
development of a typewriter element for Coptic
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we supported that"Evidence Source
An example is the development of a typewriter element for Coptic because there was no way for people to use existing typewriters to create that, so we supported that.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
SUPPORTS→
tools that were going to facilitate research in the Humanities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"to support tools that were going to facilitate research in the Humanities"Evidence Source
But the Endowment always thought it was important to support tools that were going to facilitate research in the Humanities.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Research Materials programme (NEH)
PROGRAMME
SUPPORTS→
various tools and scholarly editions
PROJECT_TYPE
Surface Form:
"supported all the various tools, scholarly editions, and so forth"Evidence Source
The “Research Materials” programme supported all the various tools, scholarly editions, and so forth.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Greg Crane
PERSON
PROMOTED_USE_OF→
computing technology for Classics and the Humanities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"is well known for his promotion of computing technology, first for Classics, but really for the Humanities largely"Evidence Source
Greg Crane is well known for his promotion of computing technology, first for Classics, but really for the Humanities largely.
Peter Shillingsburg
PERSON
CREATED→
scholarly editions in History and in literature
PROJECT_TYPE
Surface Form:
"were creating scholarly editions in History and in literature"
David Chesnutt
PERSON
CREATED→
scholarly editions in History and in literature
PROJECT_TYPE
Surface Form:
"were creating scholarly editions in History and in literature"Evidence Source
I also worked a little bit with people in scholarly editions like Peter Shillingsburg and David ChesnuttFootnote5 who were creating scholarly editions in History and in literature.
John Nitti
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"worked on the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language"Evidence Source
I remember John Nitti who worked on the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (see Chap. 9), and he was involved with computer scientists and actually doing the programming.
Nancy Ide
PERSON
ADVOCATED_FOR→
guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"were very outspoken in terms of the need to come up with guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ADVOCATED_FOR→
guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"were very outspoken in terms of the need to come up with guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable"
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
PERSON
ADVOCATED_FOR→
guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"were very outspoken in terms of the need to come up with guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable"Evidence Source
In the context of text encoding I remember Nancy Ide, Susan Hockey (see Chap. 6) and Michael Sperberg-McQueen (see Chap. 12). They were very outspoken in terms of the need to come up with guidelines for encoding text and for ways of archiving material so that it can be reusable.
Ted Brunner
PERSON
LED_PROJECT→
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"was the lead person on this"
Ted Brunner
PERSON
PROMOTED_USE_OF→
use of computer technology for his field
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"was very outspoken on the use of computer technology for his field"Evidence Source
Ted BrunnerFootnote4 was the lead person on this in the 1970s and 1980s and he was very outspoken on the use of computer technology for his field.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
L’Année Philologique
PROJECT
IS_TYPE_OF→
classical bibliography
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the classical bibliography, L’Année Philologique"Evidence Source
For instance, we worked with the classical bibliography, L’Année Philologique Footnote6 for many years to make them understand the need to be self-sustaining.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ORGANISATION
FUNDED→
L’Année Philologique
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"helped support that"Evidence Source
Not only did they have a lot of bibliographic work to do, and we helped support that, but every year they had new work to do, as new publications came out.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
HAS_DURATION→
over 40 years
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in existence for over 40 years now"
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
PROJECT
HAS_FUNDING_MODEL→
an endowment plus a subscription
FUNDING_MODEL
Surface Form:
"have received institutional support, support from the field, an endowment plus a subscription that I think they still have for part of their database"Evidence Source
The TLG is a good example. I think they’re in existence for over 40 years now and they have received institutional support, support from the field, an endowment plus a subscription that I think they still have for part of their database.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Nancy Ide
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"in the ACH"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"in the ACH"Evidence Source
Initially there were some women in the ACH: I mentioned Nancy Ide and Susan Hockey.
Assyrian Dictionary (University of Chicago)
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE→
1923
TIME
Surface Form:
"started in 1923"
Assyrian Dictionary (University of Chicago)
PROJECT
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
computers
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"was working with computers a lot"Evidence Source
It started in 1923, and it finished everything manually, well not manually, at the end it was working with computers a lot.
Assyrian Dictionary (University of Chicago)
PROJECT
LOCATED_IN→
University of Chicago
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at the University of Chicago"Evidence Source
We had a project, the Assyrian Dictionary at the University of Chicago that did everything manually.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Classics
FIELD
HAS_TRADITION→
philology
FIELD
Surface Form:
"the field had, I think, that tradition of philology"Evidence Source
Or, in the case of Classics, it was important because the field had, I think, that tradition of philology, or enquiry into specific use of words and phrases within the entire corpus.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
REFERENCE_WORK
IS_FIRST_OF_TYPE→
fully online encyclopaedia
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"was the first fully online encyclopaedia"Evidence Source
Looking, for instance, at Philosophy, first it was bibliographic controls, then the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy was the first fully online encyclopaedia.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Helen Agüera
Office of Digital Humanities
PROGRAMME
FOCUSES_ON→
how technology affects our lives and the way we do research on the cutting edge use of computers in the Humanities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"is looking at those other questions from how technology affects our lives and the way we do research on what should be the cutting edge of the use of computers in the Humanities"Evidence Source
Now I’m pleased that there’s the Office of Digital HumanitiesFootnote7 that is looking at those other questions from how technology affects our lives and the way we do research on what should be the cutting edge of the use of computers in the Humanities.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Computer Science (University of Waterloo)
DISCIPLINE
PART_OF→
Mathematics Faculty (University of Waterloo)
FACULTY
Surface Form:
"was part of their Mathematics Faculty"Evidence Source
Computer Science was part of their Mathematics Faculty
John Bradley
PERSON
LIVED_IN→
Gravenhurst, Ontario
CITY
Surface Form:
"my home, which was in Gravenhurst Ontario"Evidence Source
I remember reading it on the bus on the 100 mile trip going from Toronto to my home, which was in Gravenhurst Ontario.
John Bradley
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN_TRAINING_AT→
University of Waterloo
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"was sent by my high school to the University of Waterloo"Evidence Source
Relatively early on, let’s say about 1965 or so, I was sent by my high school to the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
UNIVERSITY
ACTIVE_IN_FIELD→
Computer Science
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"was very active in the early days of Computer Science"Evidence Source
Relatively early on, let’s say about 1965 or so, I was sent by my high school to the University of Waterloo, which was very active in the early days of Computer Science.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
FORTRAN
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
DESIGNED_FOR→
mathematical calculations
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"is a programming language for doing mathematical calculations"Evidence Source
FORTRAN is a programming language for doing mathematical calculations.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
Music
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"I decided I was going to do music instead. So, I went to a small music school and did an undergraduate degree"Evidence Source
But suddenly there’s a change and I decided I was going to do music instead. So, I went to a small music school and did an undergraduate degree.
John Bradley
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Waterloo
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"did what was classified as a Bachelor of Mathematics degree at Waterloo"Evidence Source
I did what was classified as a Bachelor of Mathematics degree at Waterloo
John Bradley
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
Computer Science
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"it was really in Computer Science"Evidence Source
I did what was classified as a Bachelor of Mathematics degree at Waterloo but it was really in Computer Science.
John Bradley
PERSON
ACCEPTED_INTO_PROGRAMME→
Masters programme in Computer Science at the University of Toronto
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"I was accepted onto the Masters programme in Computer Science at the University of Toronto"Evidence Source
I was accepted onto the Masters programme in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
University of Waterloo
UNIVERSITY
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
IBM 360 mainframe
COMPUTER_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"this big IBM 360 mainframe sitting down there"Evidence Source
You’d walk into the faculty building and the first thing you saw was this lowered floor and this big IBM 360 mainframe sitting down there
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
University of Toronto
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"I went to the University of Toronto to work"Evidence Source
but after a few terms of that I decided to switch and I went to the University of Toronto to work.
John Bradley
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Ontario’s Department of Highways
GOVERNMENT_DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"started off working for Ontario’s Department of Highways"Evidence Source
I started off working for Ontario’s Department of Highways
Co-op programme (University of Waterloo)
PROGRAMME
HAS_STRUCTURE→
alternating 4-month work and 4-month study terms
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"alternated terms with work experience. You had to get a job for 4 months and then you studied for 4 months"Evidence Source
I was in Waterloo’s Co-op programme which alternated terms with work experience. You had to get a job for 4 months and then you studied for 4 months
John Bradley
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
University of Toronto Computer Services Department (UTCS)
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"working at the University of Toronto in their Computer Services Department, the UTCS it was called"Evidence Source
I was, by then, working at the University of Toronto in their Computer Services Department, the UTCS it was called.
Co-op programme (University of Waterloo)
PROGRAMME
LASTS_FOR→
5 years
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"It lasted for 5 years"Evidence Source
It lasted for 5 years (ordinarily it was a 4 year degree but it included this extra time for work experience).
Text of Diodorus Siculus
TEXT
SUBJECT_OF_CONCORDANCE→
Key Word in Context (KWIC) concordance
METHOD
Surface Form:
"interested in generating a concordance"Evidence Source
My boss said “we have someone who’s interested in generating a concordance”. The text was by Diodorus Siculus. ... They had to dedicate a printer to this Key Word in Context (KWIC) concordance
John Bradley
PERSON
DEVELOPED→
custom concordance software for Diodorus Siculus
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"they asked if I could just write something to do the job. So I did and it ran"Evidence Source
So they asked if I could just write something to do the job. So I did and it ran.
Oxford Concordance Programme (OCP)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_FOR→
generating a concordance
METHOD
Surface Form:
"had tried to set up the Oxford Concordance Programme (OCP)"Evidence Source
They had tried to set up the Oxford Concordance Programme (OCP; see Hockey interview, Chap. 6).
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Concordance Generating System (COGS)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_AT→
University of Toronto
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"went on to do a number of similar jobs for other texts at the University of Toronto"Evidence Source
and it went on to do a number of similar jobs for other texts at the University of Toronto.
John Bradley
PERSON
DEVELOPED→
Concordance Generating System (COGS)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"I called the software Concordance Generating System (COGS)"Evidence Source
I called the software Concordance Generating System (COGS)
Concordance Generating System (COGS)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
HAS_START_DATE→
very late 1970s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"Probably the very late 1970s"Evidence Source
Probably the very late 1970s. I called the software Concordance Generating System (COGS)
Text Group (UTCS)
UNIT
PROVIDED_TRAINING_FOR→
time sharing text applications
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"My group was given the job of preparing training for that and supporting people who were taking it up. It was called the Text Group"Evidence Source
The department was therefore interested in time sharing rather than personal word processing. My group was given the job of preparing training for that and supporting people who were taking it up. It was called the Text Group.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
IMPORTANT_FIGURE_IN→
Digital Humanities in Canada
FIELD
Surface Form:
"really important for DH in Canada"Evidence Source
An important one was Ian Lancashire who you’ve probably had mentioned to you before, and I think Ian’s really important for DH in Canada.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at Toronto
CENTRE
SUPPORTED_BY→
University of Toronto faculty
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"convinced the faculty to support it"Evidence Source
and convinced the faculty to support it
Russell Wooldridge
PERSON
INTERESTED_IN→
text analysis approaches
METHOD
Surface Form:
"both of them quite interested in text, and what we now think of as text analysis approaches"
Ed Heinemann
PERSON
INTERESTED_IN→
text analysis approaches
METHOD
Surface Form:
"both of them quite interested in text, and what we now think of as text analysis approaches"Evidence Source
both of them quite interested in text, and what we now think of as text analysis approaches.
John Bradley
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
Surface Form:
"we worked together to package up things like COGS, and so on, for students to explore"Evidence Source
he became quite interested in teaching it to his students and we worked together to package up things like COGS, and so on, for students to explore.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at Toronto
CENTRE
FUNDED_BY→
IBM Canada
COMPANY
Surface Form:
"He convinced IBM Canada to provide some funding in support of this"Evidence Source
He convinced IBM Canada to provide some funding in support of this
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at Toronto
CENTRE
FOUNDED_BY→
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
Surface Form:
"He managed to get an operation called the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) started"Evidence Source
He managed to get an operation called the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) started
Willard McCarty
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
University of Toronto
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"people like Willard [McCarty] were around at Toronto as well"Evidence Source
Ian was also quite keen on this; by this point people like Willard [McCarty] were around at Toronto as well.
Russell Wooldridge
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
French Department (University of Toronto)
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"mainly in the French Department, Russell Wooldridge comes to mind"
Ed Heinemann
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
French Department (University of Toronto)
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"mainly in the French Department"Evidence Source
there was a group of people, mainly in the French Department, Russell Wooldridge comes to mind and Ed Heinemann
Computer Central Services (University of Toronto)
UNIT
PARTNERED_WITH→
academics at University of Toronto
GROUP
Surface Form:
"a bit of a partnership between Computer Central Services and the academic"Evidence Source
this was still a time when the work was thought of as a bit of a partnership between Computer Central Services and the academic.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
HEADED→
Word Group
UNIT
Surface Form:
"I was head of the Word Group"Evidence Source
I was head of the Word Group and so we did courses on things like WordPerfect
Word Group
UNIT
PROVIDED_TRAINING_FOR→
WordPerfect and Windows-oriented word processing software
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"we did courses on things like WordPerfect and, in time, Windows-oriented software"Evidence Source
I was head of the Word Group and so we did courses on things like WordPerfect and, in time, Windows-oriented software.
text analysis approach
METHOD
LABELLED_AS→
New Criticism
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I’ve often heard it labelled as a New Criticism approach"Evidence Source
I’ve often heard it labelled as a New Criticism approach.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
HOLDS_ACADEMIC_CONTRACT_AT→
King’s College London
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"I’ve only recently actually been given an academic contract here at King’s"Evidence Source
I wasn’t an academic and I’ve only recently actually been given an academic contract here at King’s.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
PROGRAMMED_WITH→
Turbo Pascal
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"I purchased the Turbo Pascal programming language and I was forced to explore writing software in it"Evidence Source
I purchased the Turbo Pascal programming language and I was forced to explore writing software in it
John Bradley
PERSON
STARTED_WORK_ON→
TACT system
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"I started to work on the TACT system in the mid-1980s"Evidence Source
I started to work on the TACT system in the mid-1980s.
John Bradley
PERSON
RECEIVED_EQUIPMENT_FROM→
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Ian had provided me with my first personal computer"Evidence Source
Ian had provided me with my first personal computer because the computer centre didn’t think I needed one in particular!
TACT system
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
TARGET_PLATFORM→
DOS-based IBM PC
COMPUTER_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"TACT was written for an original DOS-based IBM PC"Evidence Source
TACT was written for an original DOS-based IBM PC
WordCruncher
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
DEVELOPED_AT→
Brigham Young University
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"WordCruncherFootnote3 from Brigham Young University"Evidence Source
There was, for instance, WordCruncherFootnote3 from Brigham Young University.
John Bradley
PERSON
HOLDS_POSITION→
Senior Lecturer at King’s College London
POSITION
Surface Form:
"Yes, I am now Senior Lecturer"Evidence Source
Yes, I am now Senior Lecturer.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Centre for Academic Technology (CAT)
CENTRE
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at Toronto
CENTRE
Surface Form:
"we were doing interesting things, I think, within the Humanities and with CCH, to some degree informally, to develop the agenda there"Evidence Source
But we were doing interesting things, I think, within the Humanities and with CCH, to some degree informally, to develop the agenda there.
Centre for Academic Technology (CAT)
CENTRE
RENAMED_FROM→
previous UTCS unit
UNIT
Surface Form:
"My unit by that point became what was called the Centre for Academic Technology (CAT)"Evidence Source
My unit by that point became what was called the Centre for Academic Technology (CAT).
John Bradley
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
Surface Form:
"we used to push our chairs together and explore our ideas around text analysis"Evidence Source
that was the time referred to in Geoffrey Rockwell’s interview (Rockwell et al. 2012) when we used to push our chairs together and explore our ideas around text analysis.
Vice-President for computing at University of Toronto
PERSON
CHANGED_POLICY_ON→
TACT-related development work in the computer centre
ACTIVITY
Surface Form:
"made a deliberate decision that work like TACT was no longer work that the computer centre was supposed to do"Evidence Source
the vice-President of the university in charge of computing made a deliberate decision that work like TACT was no longer work that the computer centre was supposed to do.
John Bradley and colleagues at UTCS
GROUP
DEVELOPED→
HyperCard course for University of Toronto faculty
COURSE
Surface Form:
"We developed a HyperCardFootnote4 course"Evidence Source
We developed a HyperCardFootnote4 course and that, as a service, gave us the freedom to think out of the box about what we were doing.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
MOVED_TO_POSITION_AT→
King’s College London
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"eventually I left and took up my position at King’s"Evidence Source
And it’s probably the reason why eventually I left and took up my position at King’s.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
REGULARLY_ATTENDED→
Oxford Humanities Computing conference 1992
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"starting with the Oxford conference in 1992, I began to go regularly and give my own papers"Evidence Source
And after that, starting with the Oxford conference in 1992 (see Hockey and Ide 1996), I began to go regularly and give my own papers.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at Toronto
CENTRE
ORGANISED→
ACH/ALLC joint conference in Toronto
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"CCH was the centre of it"Evidence Source
CCH was the centre of it.
John Bradley
PERSON
RAN_WORKSHOPS_ON→
TACT system
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"I did run workshops on TACT"Evidence Source
I don’t think I gave a paper at the Toronto conference but I did run workshops on TACT.
John Bradley
PERSON
GAVE_PAPER_AT→
International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH) 1987
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"I remember giving a paper on that at the conference"Evidence Source
I remember giving a paper on that at the conference.
International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH) 1987
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
South Carolina
PLACE
Surface Form:
"my first experience of a more academic conference was in South Carolina, 1987, and it was part of what was called the International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH)"Evidence Source
my first experience of a more academic conference was in South Carolina, 1987, and it was part of what was called the International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH; see Oakman 1987).
John Bradley and Geoffrey Rockwell
GROUP
GAVE_JOINT_PAPERS_AT→
Paris Humanities Computing conference 1994
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"Geoffrey Rockwell and I did some joint papers at the Paris conference in 1994"Evidence Source
Shortly thereafter Geoffrey Rockwell and I did some joint papers at the Paris conference in 1994.
ACH/ALLC joint conference in Toronto
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
Toronto
CITY
Surface Form:
"Toronto, the first joint conference between the ACH and the ALLC"Evidence Source
The first conference that everyone thinks of these days is Toronto, the first joint conference between the ACH and the ALLC
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
PROMOTED_HOSTING_OF→
ACH/ALLC joint conference in Toronto
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"Ian Lancashire’s hard work to sell the idea that it should be in Toronto"Evidence Source
this again was Ian Lancashire’s hard work to sell the idea that it should be in Toronto.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Ted Nelson
PERSON
GAVE_TALK_AT→
ACH/ALLC joint conference in Toronto
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"they found a slot for him to talk and the room was packed with people"Evidence Source
he heard of the conference in Toronto and just came on his own and they found a slot for him to talk and the room was packed with people.
Ted Nelson
PERSON
IMPORTANT_FIGURE_IN→
personal computing and Hypertext
FIELD
Surface Form:
"He was an enormously influential and important figure in personal computing and Hypertext"Evidence Source
He was an enormously influential and important figure in personal computing and Hypertext
Ted Nelson
PERSON
ATTENDED→
ACH/ALLC joint conference in Toronto
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"Ted Nelson was not invited but he came"Evidence Source
I mean, Ted Nelson was not invited but he came.
Douglas Engelbart
PERSON
GAVE_TALK_ON→
Augment system
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"came and spoke about his work on Augment"Evidence Source
I remember I went to one by Douglas Engelbart who came and spoke about his work on Augment
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Paul Bratley
PERSON
WORKED_WITH_LANGUAGE→
French language texts
TEXT
Surface Form:
"He was French, so he was working in French, with French texts"Evidence Source
He was French, so he was working in French, with French texts and so on
Paul Bratley
PERSON
CONTRIBUTED_TO→
early text analysis
FIELD
Surface Form:
"an important player in some early thinking around text analysis"Evidence Source
he was important at the University of Montreal and an important player in some early thinking around text analysis.
Paul Bratley
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
University of Montreal
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"he was important at the University of Montreal"Evidence Source
I also met someone called Paul Bratley. I think he’s disappeared out of the community, but he was important at the University of Montreal
NeXT workstation
COMPUTER_SYSTEM
DEPLOYED_AT→
University of Toronto computer centre
UNIT
Surface Form:
"Toronto managed to get (they didn’t pay for it) a free NeXT and it was plopped down in the computer centre, near my office"Evidence Source
Toronto managed to get (they didn’t pay for it) a free NeXT and it was plopped down in the computer centre, near my office.
Steve Jobs
PERSON
FOUNDED→
NeXT computing company
COMPANY
Surface Form:
"set up his own company and created the NeXT computing company"Evidence Source
When Steve Jobs left Apple the first time and set up his own company and created the NeXT computing company
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Pliny
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
INSPIRED_BY→
Douglas Engelbart’s ideas on computing to support intellectual work
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"I like to think of it as Engelbartian software"Evidence Source
I like to think of it as Engelbartian software.
Pliny
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
FUNDED_BY→
Mellon Foundation
FOUNDATION
Surface Form:
"the Mellon Foundation provided me with some funding to continue to support it"Evidence Source
I was delighted when the Mellon Foundation provided me with some funding to continue to support it.
Pliny
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
DESIGNED_FOR→
scholarly note taking and concept formation
METHOD
Surface Form:
"It was about note taking, it was about juggling your notes once you’d taken them to help you develop a richer understanding of the material and to help you formulate concepts"Evidence Source
It was about note taking, it was about juggling your notes once you’d taken them to help you develop a richer understanding of the material and to help you formulate concepts.
John Bradley
PERSON
DEVELOPED→
Pliny
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"Pliny was meant to be a response to this"Evidence Source
Pliny was meant to be a response to this.
Pliny
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
RELATED_TO→
semantic web and scholarship
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"what Pliny has to say on the connection between scholarship and the semantic web"Evidence Source
The paper I’m currently working on is trying to figure out what Pliny has to say on the connection between scholarship and the semantic web.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
early Toronto framework for exploring computing in the Humanities
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"You had Ian Lancashire, you had Willard McCarty, you had Geoffrey Rockwell involved"Evidence Source
At Toronto we had, with the CCH and so on, a framework for exploring this and for trying things out. We really were explorers; we thought of ourselves as explorers there, we really were. You had Ian Lancashire, you had Willard McCarty, you had Geoffrey Rockwell involved
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London)
CENTRE
RENAMED_AS→
Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s College London
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"Centre for Computing in the Humanities (now the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s"Evidence Source
I mean the aim of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (now the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s in the beginning was to promote computing in the Humanities
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London)
CENTRE
AIMED_AT→
promoting computing in the Humanities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the aim of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities ... was to promote computing in the Humanities"Evidence Source
the aim of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (now the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s in the beginning was to promote computing in the Humanities
Willard McCarty
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
early Toronto framework for exploring computing in the Humanities
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"You had Ian Lancashire, you had Willard McCarty, you had Geoffrey Rockwell involved"
Geoffrey Rockwell
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
early Toronto framework for exploring computing in the Humanities
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"You had Ian Lancashire, you had Willard McCarty, you had Geoffrey Rockwell involved"Evidence Source
You had Ian Lancashire, you had Willard McCarty, you had Geoffrey Rockwell involved
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Harold Short
PERSON
LED_DEVELOPMENT_OF→
Digital Humanities field at King’s College London
FIELD
Surface Form:
"Harold Short, of course, was very much interested in trying to find a way to develop a field that had an academic or a research agenda"Evidence Source
Harold Short, of course, was very much interested in trying to find a way to develop a field that had an academic or a research agenda, but wasn’t always run in the conventional academic fashion.
Department of Digital Humanities (King’s College London)
DEPARTMENT
ORIGINALLY_OPERATED_OUTSIDE→
academic mainstream
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"The department started off trying to find ways to operate outside of the academic mainstream but connected with it too"Evidence Source
The department started off trying to find ways to operate outside of the academic mainstream but connected with it too
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Harold Short
PERSON
DIRECTED→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London)
CENTRE
Surface Form:
"how I thought CCH was operating under Harold’s direction"Evidence Source
The piece I wrote for Harold’s Festschrift tries to describe how I thought CCH was operating under Harold’s direction
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
SUBMITTED_TO→
UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
EVALUATION_PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"I filed for the RAEFootnote8 as a developer last time"Evidence Source
Exactly. I filed for the RAEFootnote8 as a developer last time but I wouldn’t have been able to this time.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
Department of Digital Humanities (King’s College London)
DEPARTMENT
HAS_ATTRIBUTE→
more gender-balanced academic staff
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"we’re much more gender balanced now"Evidence Source
many of our newer academic people are younger for one thing, that’s bound to help, and I think we’re much more gender balanced now, thank goodness.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
SET_UP→
Linux web server at King’s College London
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I turned it into a Linux machine and set up a Linux web server on it and explored all that"Evidence Source
But the old one was still there, so I turned it into a Linux machine and set up a Linux web server on it and explored all that.
John Bradley
PERSON
DEVELOPED_FOR→
Clergy of the Church of England (CCEd) and Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England (PASE) projects
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"a relatively short step to think about the Clergy of the Church of England (CCEd) project and eventually the Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England (PASE) project"Evidence Source
From there I became clearly involved as the developer for the technical side of these various projects, so from there it was a relatively short step to think about the Clergy of the Church of England (CCEd)Footnote11 project and eventually the Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England (PASE) project.
Harold Short’s team
UNIT
PART_OF→
King’s College London computer centre
UNIT
Surface Form:
"Harold Short’s team was still part of the computer centre in those days at King’s"Evidence Source
Harold Short’s team was still part of the computer centre in those days at King’s.
John Bradley
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
CRSBI (Romanesque Sculpture) and CVMA (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi) projects
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I became also involved partly when the design work was already done around the CRSBI (Romanesque Sculpture) project and CVMA (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi), the Stained Glass project"Evidence Source
I became also involved partly when the design work was already done around the CRSBI (Romanesque Sculpture) project and CVMA (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi), the Stained Glass project.
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE)
PROJECT
IMPLEMENTED_ON→
mainframe with relational databases
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"It was being created on a mainframe and it was using relational databases for data storage"Evidence Source
It was being created on a mainframe and it was using relational databases for data storage.
John Bradley
PERSON
HELD_POSITION_IN→
King’s College London computer centre
UNIT
Surface Form:
"My post here was originally part of the computer centre"Evidence Source
My post here was originally part of the computer centre.
John Bradley
PERSON
SUPPORTED_UNITS→
School of Law and Humanities School at King’s College London
FACULTY
Surface Form:
"Originally, my post was partly for the School of Law and partly for the Humanities School"Evidence Source
Originally, my post was partly for the School of Law and partly for the Humanities School.
John Bradley
PERSON
FOCUSED_ON→
web publishing and web application development
ACTIVITY
Surface Form:
"my work was centred around web publishing and web application development"Evidence Source
so my work was centred around web publishing and web application development.
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE)
PROJECT
INVOLVED_PERSON→
John Bradley
PERSON
Surface Form:
"The earliest project I became significantly involved in was the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire"Evidence Source
The earliest project I became significantly involved in was the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE)
PROJECT
PUBLISHED_AS→
static interconnected web pages on CD
DIGITAL_PUBLICATION
Surface Form:
"we managed to squeeze them all on to a CD and we took the data from the database and transformed them into a bunch of tightly interconnected webpages. And that’s how the thing was published in the end"Evidence Source
we managed to squeeze them all on to a CD and we took the data from the database and transformed them into a bunch of tightly interconnected webpages. And that’s how the thing was published in the end
John Bradley
PERSON
DESIGNED_PUBLICATION_FOR→
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"What I was involved in for that project was thinking about how to publish the results"Evidence Source
What I was involved in for that project was thinking about how to publish the results.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
John Bradley
PERSON
MANAGED→
media centre at University of Toronto Computer Services
UNIT
Surface Form:
"I had been given the responsibility of managing the media centre"Evidence Source
By the time I had left Toronto I had been given the responsibility of managing the media centre.
Harold Short
PERSON
HIRED→
John Bradley
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I applied to the post and Harold Short found a way of making it possible"Evidence Source
I applied to the post and Harold Short found a way of making it possible.
media centre at University of Toronto Computer Services
UNIT
PROVIDED_AV_SERVICES→
classroom audiovisual equipment
EQUIPMENT
Surface Form:
"responsible for the people who rolled the trolleys around and set up the overhead projectors in the rooms"Evidence Source
So, I was responsible for the people who rolled the trolleys around and set up the overhead projectors in the rooms.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
MOVED_FROM→
University of Toronto to King’s College London
MIGRATION
Surface Form:
"Willard McCarty had come the year before and I was deeply envious of his having left Toronto"Evidence Source
Willard McCarty had come the year before and I was deeply envious of his having left Toronto with, at that time, its lack of vision about what the potential of computing was.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Bradley
No extractions found for this utterance.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
campus academic computing facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
ORGANISATION
IS_MAINFRAME_BASED→
mainframe computers
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"our campus academic computing facility was mainframe-based"Evidence Source
At the time, our campus academic computing facility was mainframe-based, as most if not all were.
Professor Lloyd Kasten
PERSON
FUNDS→
John's early computer experimentation
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"he was totally willing to put up what for an individual were quite large sums of money so that I could start playing around with computers"Evidence Source
He had a sizable savings account so he was totally willing to put up what for an individual were quite large sums of money so that I could start playing around with computers.
John
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (DOSL)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"still working on the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (hereafter DOSL) with me"Evidence Source
he was still going strong and still working on the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language (hereafter DOSL) with me 3 months prior to his death.
John
PERSON
HAS_FIRST_COMPUTING_CONTACT_VIA→
fellow graduate student of John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"my first contact with computer technology, with an eye toward employing it and applying it to my research, occurred via one of my fellow graduate students"Evidence Source
my first contact with computer technology, with an eye toward employing it and applying it to my research, occurred via one of my fellow graduate students.
John
PERSON
RECEIVES_GRANT_FROM→
NEH
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"My first significant grant was, if I remember correctly, for $242,000, from the NEH"Evidence Source
My first significant grant was, if I remember correctly, for $242,000, from the NEH.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
ORGANISATION
PUBLISHES→
textual transcriptions and concordances of medieval Spanish texts
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"For years we published and disseminated the data that we were generating"Evidence Source
For years we published and disseminated the data that we were generating, both textual transcriptions and corresponding concordances with frequency counts and all that typical stuff that you get with concordancing schemes. And we were able to sell it through this new publishing house we created, the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
John O’Neill
PERSON
HOLDS_POSITION_AT→
Hispanic Society of America
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"so he hired him on the spot to be the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. This was some 15 years ago and John O’Neill is still there as Curator but they’ve made him, in addition to the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, also the Head Librarian of the Hispanic Society of America"Evidence Source
he hired him on the spot to be the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. This was some 15 years ago and John O’Neill is still there as Curator but they’ve made him, in addition to the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, also the Head Librarian of the Hispanic Society of America.
Dictionary of Old English project
PROJECT
DIRECTED_BY→
Professor Angus Cameron
PERSON
Surface Form:
"under the directorship of Professor Angus Cameron at the University of Toronto"Evidence Source
He was involved with the computational aspects of the Dictionary of Old English project under the directorship of Professor Angus Cameron at the University of Toronto
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
ORGANISATION
FOUNDED_BY→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Mr Kasten and I created a non-profit publishing house called the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies"
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
ORGANISATION
FOUNDED_BY→
Professor Lloyd Kasten
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Mr Kasten and I created a non-profit publishing house called the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies"Evidence Source
Mr Kasten and I created a non-profit publishing house called the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
ORGANISATION
TRANSFERRED_TO→
Hispanic Society of America
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"When I retired I had it all legally transferred to him and the Society"Evidence Source
When I retired I had it all legally transferred to him and the Society, knowing that he would keep it going.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
magnetic tape cassette system with dual tape deck
TECHNOLOGY
USED_AS_OFFLINE_STORAGE_FOR→
DOSL transcription data
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"they were selling a low cost magnetic tape cartridge, these were digital grade Philips cassette tapes and it had a dual tape deck"Evidence Source
I found a booth where they were selling a low cost magnetic tape cartridge, these were digital grade Philips cassette tapes and it had a dual tape deck.
intelligent terminals used in DOSL project
TECHNOLOGY
USED_FOR_DATA_ENTRY→
DOSL text transcription
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"They were intelligent terminals"Evidence Source
I found terminals! They were intelligent terminals.
campus computer facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
ORGANISATION
CHARGES_FOR_STORAGE→
20 MB of disk storage on the mainframe
TECHNOLOGY_RESOURCE
Surface Form:
"the campus computer facility was charging us, you ready for this? Almost $17,000 a year to rent 20 MB of disk storage on the mainframe"Evidence Source
the campus computer facility was charging us, you ready for this? Almost $17,000 a year to rent 20 MB of disk storage on the mainframe!
campus computer system at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
ORGANISATION
DEVELOPED_SOFTWARE_FOR→
spooling data from cassette tapes into the mainframe
METHOD
Surface Form:
"to develop spooling software that would enable us to spool the data off of these cassette tapes, in a batch mode, into the campus mainframe for processing"Evidence Source
to develop spooling software that would enable us to spool the data off of these cassette tapes, in a batch mode, into the campus mainframe for processing.
transcription of the very first manuscript of Alfonso the Wise
PROJECT
USED_KEYPUNCH_FOR→
keypunch cards
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"We used the keypunch for that and we managed to produce the entire transcription all in lower and uppercase"Evidence Source
We used the keypunch for that and we managed to produce the entire transcription all in lower and uppercase
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
John
PERSON
APPOINTED_AS→
assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin
POSITION
Surface Form:
"they decided to keep me on as an assistant Professor"Evidence Source
I finished my dissertation and graduated and they decided to keep me on as an assistant Professor.
John
PERSON
RECEIVES_PILOT_GRANT_FROM→
NEH
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I had the first pilot grant from the NEH at this point and so I was able to hire staff"Evidence Source
I had the first pilot grant from the NEH at this point and so I was able to hire staff.
John
PERSON
REQUIRED_FOR_PROJECT→
five IBM MTST data entry stations
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I needed five of them as data entry stations"Evidence Source
I needed five of them as data entry stations
IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter (MTST)
TECHNOLOGY
LEASE_COST_PER_YEAR→
about $15,000 a year
QUANTITY
Surface Form:
"They were leasing that device for about $15,000 a year"Evidence Source
They were leasing that device for about $15,000 a year.
DOSL data entry work
PROJECT
REQUIRES_SKILL→
training in medieval palaeography
FIELD
Surface Form:
"you had to be a trained palaeographer to be able to read our input and work directly with original thirteenth century manuscripts"Evidence Source
you had to be a trained palaeographer to be able to read our input and work directly with original thirteenth century manuscripts
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
first NEH grant proposal for DOSL
PROJECT
HAS_PROPOSAL_DRAFTED_IN→
1971
TIME
Surface Form:
"I remember drafting the proposal in ‘71"Evidence Source
I remember drafting the proposal in ‘71.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
data entry system for DOSL and dissertation
TECHNOLOGY
COMPRISES_TERMINALS_AND_TAPE_DRIVES→
intelligent editing CRT terminals and dual tape drives
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"we were doing data entry using intelligent editing CRT terminals with their own internal editing capability and interfaced to a standalone system, those dual tape drive affairs"Evidence Source
we were doing data entry using intelligent editing CRT terminals with their own internal editing capability and interfaced to a standalone system, those dual tape drive affairs that I referred to as storage media.
John's PhD thesis
PROJECT
USES_COMPUTER_TECHNOLOGY→
computer technology developed for DOSL
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"While working on my PhD thesis I did use much of the computer technology that we had developed up to that point"Evidence Source
While working on my PhD thesis I did use much of the computer technology that we had developed up to that point.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
medieval manuscript translation of the Book of Marco Polo
MANUSCRIPT
TRANSLATED_INTO→
fourteenth century Aragonese
LANGUAGE_VARIETY
Surface Form:
"It was translated into fourteenth century Aragonese"Evidence Source
It was translated into fourteenth century Aragonese
John's dissertation
PROJECT
EDITS→
medieval manuscript translation of the Book of Marco Polo
MANUSCRIPT
Surface Form:
"it was the editing of the only extant medieval manuscript translation of the Book of Marco Polo in an Ibero-Romance tongue (Nitti 1972)"Evidence Source
my dissertation wasn’t even on a Castilian Spanish text, it was the editing of the only extant medieval manuscript translation of the Book of Marco Polo in an Ibero-Romance tongue (Nitti 1972).
Color Corp (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
ORGANISATION
PROVIDED_TYPESETTING_FOR→
John's edition of Marco Polo
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"So I struck up a deal with a company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin called Color Corp"Evidence Source
So I struck up a deal with a company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin called Color Corp and they basically had a contract with one of those big chain stores to do all of their printing of ads and that kind of stuff.
manuscript of the Aragonese Marco Polo translation
MANUSCRIPT
HELD_BY→
Escorial Library in Spain
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the manuscript itself still exists at the Escorial Library in Spain"Evidence Source
the manuscript itself still exists at the Escorial Library in Spain.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
John
PERSON
GAVE_LECTURES_AT→
various American universities and the University of Montreal
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"In May of 1981 I took a show on the road for publicity purposes and was asked to give lectures about our work and the technology we used. I must have gone to 20 different American Universities, I was even invited by the University of Montreal in Canada"Evidence Source
In May of 1981 I took a show on the road for publicity purposes and was asked to give lectures about our work and the technology we used. I must have gone to 20 different American Universities, I was even invited by the University of Montreal in Canada.
Kurzweil Scanner
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_APPROX_COST→
more than $80,000
QUANTITY
Surface Form:
"the Kurzweil Scanner was very new. It cost more than $80,000 and we couldn’t afford it"Evidence Source
the Kurzweil Scanner was very new. It cost more than $80,000 and we couldn’t afford it.
Kurzweil Scanner in Madison
TECHNOLOGY
OWNED_BY→
wealthy attorney in Madison
PERSON
Surface Form:
"there was only one Kurzweil true OCR device in the entire state of Wisconsin. It happened to be here in the city of Madison and it was owned by a wealthy attorney"Evidence Source
there was only one Kurzweil true OCR device in the entire state of Wisconsin. It happened to be here in the city of Madison and it was owned by a wealthy attorney
Royal Spanish Academy’s Dictionary of the Spanish Language
PROJECT
SCANNED_INTO_MACHINE_READABLE_FORM_FOR→
Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language definitional database
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we scan and get into machine readable form what was in the public domain, which was the then last edition of the Royal Spanish Academy’s Dictionary of the Spanish Language"Evidence Source
we scan and get into machine readable form what was in the public domain, which was the then last edition of the Royal Spanish Academy’s Dictionary of the Spanish Language, a monolingual dictionary, then we could modify it to our liking and it would be our definitional canon, in effect.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
Charles Faulhaber
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
University of California-Berkeley
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"a famous Professor at the University of California-Berkeley"Evidence Source
a famous Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, he recently retired, his name’s Charles Faulhaber.
Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (BOOST)
PROJECT
CREATED_BY→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I created what we called the Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (BOOST)"Evidence Source
I created what we called the Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (BOOST).
John
PERSON
TEACHES→
courses in Old Spanish palaeography
COURSE
Surface Form:
"I was teaching at the time, and continued to teach right up until my retirement, courses in Old Spanish palaeography"Evidence Source
I was teaching at the time, and continued to teach right up until my retirement, courses in Old Spanish palaeography
PhiloBiblon
PROJECT
DEVELOPS_FROM→
Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (BOOST)
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"he’s turned it into a completely different thing. His much expanded work is called PhiloBiblon"Evidence Source
it assumed a life of its own until finally I turned the whole bibliographic arm of the thing over to a famous Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, he recently retired, his name’s Charles Faulhaber. One of his interests was bibliographies, so I turned it over to him, and he’s turned it into a completely different thing. His much expanded work is called PhiloBiblon
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
ORGANISATION
PUBLISHES_ON_MICROFICHE→
medieval text transcriptions and concordances
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we were now creating microfiche as a publication medium which enabled us to publish hundreds of thousands of pages of information"Evidence Source
we were now creating microfiche as a publication medium which enabled us to publish hundreds of thousands of pages of information
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
John
PERSON
TOOK_COURSE_IN→
BASIC programming
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I took a course in BASIC and I said to myself “this is silly, I’m going to try to get money from the government or wherever I can get it from.”"Evidence Source
I took a course in BASIC and I said to myself “this is silly, I’m going to try to get money from the government or wherever I can get it from.”
Professor Lloyd Kasten
PERSON
FUNDS_HIRING_OF→
first computer programmer for DOSL project
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Mr Kasten put up some seed money out of his own pocket to hire our first computer programmer"Evidence Source
Mr Kasten put up some seed money out of his own pocket to hire our first computer programmer.
external collaborators on DOSL
GROUP
SEND_TRANSCRIPTIONS_TO→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"suddenly a stack of these specially typewritten, barcode-type texts would appear on my doorstep for scanning"Evidence Source
There would be long intervals of months, in some cases years, and then suddenly a stack of these specially typewritten, barcode-type texts would appear on my doorstep for scanning.
DOSL lexicographic software
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
MODELLED_AFTER→
Oxford English Dictionary
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"We modelled this thing, in broad terms, after the Oxford English Dictionary"Evidence Source
We modelled this thing, in broad terms, after the Oxford English Dictionary
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
Oxford English Dictionary
PROJECT
USES_VOLUNTEER_CITATION_METHOD→
volunteer readers supplying citation slips
METHOD
Surface Form:
"they actually had a bunch of non-technical people sitting at home and writing down what they found. Their job was to read text and pull out words that they thought were neat and hadn’t yet been documented, or whatever, and then they had to write them on snippets of paper"Evidence Source
they actually had a bunch of non-technical people sitting at home and writing down what they found. Their job was to read text and pull out words that they thought were neat and hadn’t yet been documented, or whatever, and then they had to write them on snippets of paper.
DOSL citation collection method
METHOD
TECHNOLOGICAL_ANALOGUE_OF→
OED slip-based method
METHOD
Surface Form:
"We can capture their keystrokes instead of having them send us a bunch of snippets of paper, right? We can actually have them send us machine-readable pieces of paper"Evidence Source
We can capture their keystrokes instead of having them send us a bunch of snippets of paper, right? We can actually have them send us machine-readable pieces of paper.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
John
PERSON
BUILT_MULTIUSER_SYSTEM→
eight-user MP/M-based system
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I build an eight-user multi-user system, a true multi-user system where there were eight terminals. We used it for years"Evidence Source
I build an eight-user multi-user system, a true multi-user system where there were eight terminals. We used it for years.
MP/M
TECHNOLOGY
IS_MULTIUSER_VERSION_OF→
CP/M
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I later migrated to MP/M, the true multi-user, multi-tasking version of CP/M"Evidence Source
I later migrated to MP/M, the true multi-user, multi-tasking version of CP/M.
Intel 8080 kit computer
TECHNOLOGY
USES_STORAGE_DEVICE→
dual 8-inch floppy disk drives
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"at the end of it you had two of these 8-in. floppy disk drives"Evidence Source
It came in what looked like a mahogany window box, something you’d plant flowers in. It was about a yard long and quite narrow because at the end of it you had two of these 8-in. floppy disk drives.
John
PERSON
BUILT_MICROCOMPUTER_WITH→
Intel 8080-based kit computer with 64K RAM
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"The first one I built was driven by a little 8-bit, Intel 8080 chip and it started with 64 K of RAM"Evidence Source
The first one I built was driven by a little 8-bit, Intel 8080 chip and it started with 64 K of RAM
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
Donald Knuth
PERSON
INVENTED→
TeX typesetting language
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"Donald Knuth had invented and wrote for Unix mainframes the TeX typesetting language"Evidence Source
Donald Knuth had invented and wrote for Unix mainframes the TeX typesetting language (Knuth 1979).
TeX typesetting language
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
RELEASED_TO_PUBLIC_DOMAIN_BY→
Donald Knuth
PERSON
Surface Form:
"He turned it over to public domain"Evidence Source
He turned it over to public domain and as soon as he did little companies started producing, in this case early on, MS-DOS-based versions of TeX for 200 bucks.
John
PERSON
PROVIDED_CAMERA_READY_COPY_TO→
John O’Neill
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I sent him the camera ready copy and he negotiated a contract with a printing outfit and that’s how we were able to sell this"Evidence Source
I sent him the camera ready copy and he negotiated a contract with a printing outfit and that’s how we were able to sell this.
John
PERSON
TYPESET_AT→
Dictionary of Castilian Prose of King Alfonso X
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I typeset the Dictionary of Castilian Prose of King Alfonso X right here at my home in Madison in 2002"Evidence Source
In fact, I typeset the Dictionary of Castilian Prose of King Alfonso X right here at my home in Madison in 2002.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language project
PROJECT
RECEIVED_MATCHING_FUNDS_FROM→
Spanish Government
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"we also got $300,000 worth of matching money from the Spanish Government"Evidence Source
but we also got $300,000 worth of matching money from the Spanish Government.
Frederic Cassidy
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Dictionary of Regional American English
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"He was the founder and the editor of the Dictionary of Regional American English"Evidence Source
He was the founder and the editor of the Dictionary of Regional American English.
John
PERSON
APPOINTED_FULBRIGHT_SCHOLAR_AT→
University of Salamanca
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I was in fact named as a visiting Fulbright scholar to the University of Salamanca"Evidence Source
I was in fact named as a visiting Fulbright scholar to the University of Salamanca
Dictionary of Medieval Spanish Medical Texts
PROJECT
TYPESET_BY→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I did all the typesetting and everything here, again, in my house"Evidence Source
So I had two long-term experiences with older people, in this case, scholars, researchers and professors. ... I did all the typesetting and everything here, again, in my house.
Professor Lloyd Kasten
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Dictionary of Alfonsine Prose
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"3 months before his death at age 94, my mentor, Mr Kasten, was still working with me on a daily basis on completing the Dictionary of Alfonsine Prose"Evidence Source
some 3 months before his death at age 94, my mentor, Mr Kasten, was still working with me on a daily basis on completing the Dictionary of Alfonsine Prose.
International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
EVENT
HELD_AT→
Kalamazoo, Michigan
PLACE
Surface Form:
"the International Congress on Medieval Studies held annually at Kalamazoo, Michigan is the biggy of international Medieval Studies"Evidence Source
The International Congress on Medieval Studies held annually at Kalamazoo, Michigan is the biggy of international Medieval Studies.
Dictionary of Medieval Spanish Medical Texts
PROJECT
CREATED_BY→
three medieval Spanish scholars at University of Salamanca
GROUP
Surface Form:
"they, in their own right, created two separate dictionaries, big monster dictionaries. The more important of the two was a Dictionary of Medieval Spanish Medical Texts"Evidence Source
they, in their own right, created two separate dictionaries, big monster dictionaries. The more important of the two was a Dictionary of Medieval Spanish Medical Texts.
National Computer Conference 1981 in Chicago
EVENT
INCLUDED_TALK_BY→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"This was 1981, it was being held in Chicago and I was invited to present what I was told was the first talk offered by a Humanist at the National Computer Conference"Evidence Source
This was 1981, it was being held in Chicago and I was invited to present what I was told was the first talk offered by a Humanist at the National Computer Conference.
session on computers in the Humanities at Kalamazoo
EVENT
HAD_CHAIR→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"would you like to chair an ongoing session on computers in the Humanities here at the Kalamazoo conference every year? I said “I suppose so”. I signed up to that and I did it for some 5 years"Evidence Source
would you like to chair an ongoing session on computers in the Humanities here at the Kalamazoo conference every year? I said “I suppose so”. I signed up to that and I did it for some 5 years
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
microfiche retrieval and display unit
TECHNOLOGY
ORIGINALLY_MADE_FOR→
United States Patent Office
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"a product that was initially made to order for the United States Patent Office. It was a computer-driven microfiche retrieval and display play unit that had a carousel in there"Evidence Source
Another gizmo I interfaced into all this was a product that was initially made to order for the United States Patent Office. It was a computer-driven microfiche retrieval and display play unit that had a carousel in there.
Professor Lloyd Kasten
PERSON
FUNDED_PURCHASE_OF→
microfiche retrieval and display unit
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I’d say “ok, how much do you need.” I’d say “$10,000” and he’d say “ok” and write me a cheque"Evidence Source
I’d say “ok, how much do you need.” I’d say “$10,000” and he’d say “ok” and write me a cheque.
DOSL project
PROJECT
USED_MICROFICHE_DEVICE_FOR→
microfiche retrieval and display unit
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"We would bring up, in one second, a photographic colour reproduction of a manuscript page (that corresponded to a page of transcription that we had just done) to do final checking against the original manuscript"Evidence Source
We would bring up, in one second, a photographic colour reproduction of a manuscript page (that corresponded to a page of transcription that we had just done) to do final checking against the original manuscript.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
John
Principal Investigators of early NEH computer-related humanities projects
GROUP
INVITED_TO_MEETINGS_BY→
John
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I just contacted them and said “why don’t we have a brainstorming session? Come to Madison and I’ll arrange for your hotel room”. It was always six, at the most, seven Principal Investigators from various projects around the country"Evidence Source
I just contacted them and said “why don’t we have a brainstorming session? Come to Madison and I’ll arrange for your hotel room”. It was always six, at the most, seven Principal Investigators from various projects around the country; they came from as far away as California.
John
PERSON
CONSIDERED_PIONEER_IN→
application of computer technology to humanistic research
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I was, I guess, one of a handful of pioneers"Evidence Source
It is funny because when the whole thing started, I was, I guess, one of a handful of pioneers.
NEH guidelines for computer technology in humanistic research
CONCEPT
DRAFTED_BY→
group of early Principal Investigators including John
GROUP
Surface Form:
"that group of guys, it was all guys at that point, were all asked by the Endowment to draft the first guidelines for Principal Investigators in the Humanities seeking to incorporate computer technology into their research"Evidence Source
that group of guys, it was all guys at that point, were all asked by the Endowment to draft the first guidelines for Principal Investigators in the Humanities seeking to incorporate computer technology into their research.
JN
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
pre-runner of what would later be called a database
TECHNOLOGY
USED_FOR_ANALYSIS_OF→
spatial distribution of medieval coins
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"to map"Evidence Source
We had a presentation from somebody who used a pre-runner of what would later be called a database to map the spatial distribution of medieval coins
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
Cambridge Group
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
England
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"in England"Evidence Source
My first professional contact was to a Historian of the family, not in the sense of Genealogy but the development of structures of family, like the Cambridge Group did in England (see, for example, Laslett and Wall 1972).
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HIRED_BY→
a Historian of the family
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I was immediately hired"Evidence Source
That was in Vienna in early 1977, where I was immediately hired because a professor had approached me as he had heard that I was doing some computer work for other historical projects.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
STARTS_WORK_IN_FIELD→
Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"my active work in the area started"Evidence Source
Well, how far a Humanities Computing community existed in 1976, when my active work in the area started, is a bit doubtful, particularly in Austria.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
research project with Historian of the family in Vienna
PROJECT
USES_METHOD→
standard statistical calculations of demographic behaviour
METHOD
Surface Form:
"was standard statistical calculations of demographic behaviour"Evidence Source
That was standard statistical calculations of demographic behaviour.
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HAS_POSTDOC_POSITION_AT→
Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"a scholarship for 2 years of post-doctoral training at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna"Evidence Source
And after finishing my doctorate (Thaller 1975) I had the possibility to get a scholarship for 2 years of post-doctoral training at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, which offered courses in empirical Social Science even to people who had no formal training in Social Science.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
DEVELOPED_SOFTWARE_FOR→
software to administer the descriptions of images
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"my first exercise in applied programming was to build software to administer the descriptions of images"Evidence Source
And my first exercise in applied programming was to build software to administer the descriptions of images.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
INSTITUTION
OFFERS_COURSES_IN→
empirical Social Science
FIELD
Surface Form:
"offered courses in empirical Social Science"Evidence Source
I had the possibility to get a scholarship for 2 years of post-doctoral training at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, which offered courses in empirical Social Science even to people who had no formal training in Social Science.
software to administer the descriptions of images
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
HAS_COMMAND_LANGUAGE→
command language designed for non-computer specialists at the research institute
METHOD
Surface Form:
"was controlled by a command language that was supposed to be sufficiently far from a computer that the people working at that research institute actually could use it themselves"Evidence Source
It was controlled by a command language that was supposed to be sufficiently far from a computer that the people working at that research institute actually could use it themselves.
doctoral thesis of Manfred Thaller
THESIS
HAS_TOPIC→
History of Mentality
FIELD
Surface Form:
"dealt with roughly the History of Mentality"Evidence Source
My own doctoral thesis dealt with roughly the History of Mentality, or more properly, how opinions would be created out of information available at the time.
project on the daily life of the middle ages
PROJECT
AIMS_TO_STUDY→
material aspects of daily life
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"for the study of material aspects of daily life"Evidence Source
The idea was to create a database which would use those images not as Art Historians use them, but for historical purposes, that is, for the study of material aspects of daily life.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
PROGRAMMED_IN→
SNOBOL
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"programming exercises in SNOBOL"Evidence Source
This led me to the decision to do, besides the application of statistical software, some programming exercises in SNOBOL.
project on the daily life of the middle ages
PROJECT
COLLECTS_MATERIAL_FROM→
surviving medieval images in the area roughly coincident with today’s Austria and some of the neighbouring countries
SOURCE_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"had started to create a collection of all the surviving medieval images in the area roughly coincident with today’s Austria and some of the neighbouring countries"Evidence Source
This project had started to create a collection of all the surviving medieval images in the area roughly coincident with today’s Austria and some of the neighbouring countries.
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
SNOBOL
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
NOT_WIDELY_USED_AT→
Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"which nobody else at the Institute had ever used in practice"Evidence Source
SNOBOL, which nobody else at the Institute had ever used in practice, was suspected to be particularly useful for what I had in mind.
post-doctoral training at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
PROGRAMME
INCLUDES_SOFTWARE_TRAINING_IN→
SPSS
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"formal training in computer usage simply consisted of how to use SPSS"Evidence Source
We had formal training in statistics and some in Mathematics, but formal training in computer usage simply consisted of how to use SPSS.
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
TEACHES→
computing and programming
FIELD
Surface Form:
"when I formally teach computing and programming"Evidence Source
This is the reason why when I formally teach computing and programming I try not to impress a model of how people have to learn (any more than is absolutely necessary to keep classes consistent).
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
Quantum (Association for Quantification and Methods in Historical and Social Research)
ASSOCIATION
PUBLISHES_JOURNAL→
Historical Social Research
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"still publish a journal (Historical Social Research)"Evidence Source
after the very few first years it basically evolved into a group of people who still publish a journal (Historical Social Research) in the field but there’s not very much happening beyond that.
Quantum (Association for Quantification and Methods in Historical and Social Research)
ASSOCIATION
ORGANIZES_SUMMER_SCHOOLS→
summer schools organised by Quantum
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"they organised summer schools themselves"
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HEAVILY_INVOLVED_IN→
summer schools organised by Quantum
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"in which I, of course, was heavily involved"Evidence Source
In those years they organised summer schools themselves in which I, of course, was heavily involved.
Quantum (Association for Quantification and Methods in Historical and Social Research)
ASSOCIATION
FOCUSES_ON→
quantitative methods in History
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was working very intensively with quantitative methods in History"Evidence Source
Quantum (Association for Quantification and Methods in Historical and Social Research – Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Quantifizierung und Methoden in der historisch-sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung e.V), which is a membership-driven group which at that time was working very intensively with quantitative methods in History.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
ALLC conference in Pisa in 1982
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"conference that I attended"
ALLC conference in Pisa in 1982
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
Pisa
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Pisa"
ALLC conference in Pisa in 1982
CONFERENCE
HAS_DATE→
1982
TIME
Surface Form:
"in Pisa in 1982"Evidence Source
The first ALLC conference that I attended was in Pisa in 1982.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
conference on computing in parts of the Humanities in Cologne in 1977
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"The first conference that I attended which dealt with computing in parts of the Humanities was in Cologne in 1977"
Quantum (Association for Quantification and Methods in Historical and Social Research)
ASSOCIATION
ORGANIZED_CONFERENCE→
conference on computing in parts of the Humanities in Cologne in 1977
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"a conference of what is still called Quantum"Evidence Source
The first conference that I attended which dealt with computing in parts of the Humanities was in Cologne in 1977, where there was a conference of what is still called Quantum (Association for Quantification and Methods in Historical and Social Research – Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Quantifizierung und Methoden in der historisch-sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung e.V), which is a membership-driven group which at that time was working very intensively with quantitative methods in History.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
series of summer schools in Austria
EVENT_SERIES
HAS_TIME_SPAN→
1978–early 1990s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"ran between 1978 until the early 1990s"Evidence Source
a series of summer schools in Austria that ran between 1978 until the early 1990s.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
PRESENTED_RESEARCH_AT→
Historians’ conferences
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"I also quite frequently presented the work I did at all sorts of Historians’ conferences"Evidence Source
From something like 1978 onwards, I also quite frequently presented the work I did at all sorts of Historians’ conferences, but there were too many of them for me to have a very clear memory of when I presented what.
Austrian-based group organising summer schools in Austria
ORGANISATION
ORGANIZED_EVENT_SERIES→
series of summer schools in Austria
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"organised a series of summer schools in Austria"Evidence Source
I was part of an Austrian-based group who organised a series of summer schools in Austria that ran between 1978 until the early 1990s.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
Austrian-based group organising summer schools in Austria
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I was part of an Austrian-based group"Evidence Source
Oh yes. Still linking back to Austria, I was part of an Austrian-based group who organised a series of summer schools in Austria that ran between 1978 until the early 1990s.
Austrian-based group organising summer schools in Austria
ORGANISATION
ORGANIZED_SESSIONS_AT→
annual Historians’ conference in Austria
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"also organised regular workshops or sections at the annual Historians’ conference in Austria"Evidence Source
This group also organised regular workshops or sections at the annual Historians’ conference in Austria.
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
The Poverty of Historicism
BOOK
FREQUENTLY_QUOTED_BY→
quantifiers
GROUP
Surface Form:
"was frequently quoted by"Evidence Source
So, the Poverty of Historicism (Popper 1957) was frequently quoted by the quantifiers
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
easily usable web publication possibilities or web services
TECHNOLOGY
BECOMES_AVAILABLE_AROUND→
1995
TIME
Surface Form:
"in something like 1995"Evidence Source
For example, the advent of easily available quantitative methods with the arrival of SPSS and similar programs; the arrival of easily usable databases together with PCs; and the arrival of easily usable web publication possibilities or web services in something like 1995.
very simple-minded statistical programs on PCs
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
PROVIDES_GRAPHICAL_STATISTICS→
graphical representations of statistical data
METHOD
Surface Form:
"offered the possibility of very easily creating graphical representations of statistical data"Evidence Source
The interesting thing that happened when the PC was invented is that there came with it some very simple-minded statistical programs that offered the possibility of very easily creating graphical representations of statistical data.
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
complex Social History analysis project based on family reconstitutions
PROJECT
USES_METHOD→
family reconstitutions or extended family reconstitutions
METHOD
Surface Form:
"based on things called family reconstitutions or extended family reconstitutions"Evidence Source
a complex Social History analysis based on things called family reconstitutions or extended family reconstitutions, for specific types of Economic and Social History.
Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen
INSTITUTION
HAS_DIRECTOR→
Mr Vierhaus
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the Director of that institute at that time, Mr Vierhaus"Evidence Source
and the Director of that institute at that time, Mr Vierhaus, let his people have great leeway.
Max Planck Society
ORGANISATION
PROVIDES_COMPUTING_CAPACITY_TO→
researchers at Max Planck institutes
GROUP
Surface Form:
"people should have the computing capacities and devices they needed quite irrespective of which institute they came from"Evidence Source
And these infrastructures assumed that people should have the computing capacities and devices they needed quite irrespective of which institute they came from.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HAD_ACCESS_TO→
conference volumes published since the early 1960s about the early stages of Humanities Computing
PUBLICATION_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"I had access to all the conference volumes published since the early 1960s about the early stages of Humanities Computing all over the field"Evidence Source
But I had access to all the conference volumes published since the early 1960s about the early stages of Humanities Computing all over the field.
Historical Methods
JOURNAL
INFLUENCED→
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
Surface Form:
"influenced me most directly"Evidence Source
But that’s probably the one thing that influenced me most directly.
Harvard
INSTITUTION
PROVIDED_COMPUTING_RESOURCES_TO→
David Herlihy
PERSON
Surface Form:
"had just made extraordinary capabilities available to him, more precisely a 10 MB hard disc"Evidence Source
He became very, very enthusiastic because Harvard had just made extraordinary capabilities available to him, more precisely a 10 MB hard disc and he would only have to find the money for a programmer so he could actually use it!
David Herlihy
PERSON
PRODUCED_FULLY_QUANTITATIVE_STUDY_OF→
Tuscan or Pisan census
SOURCE
Surface Form:
"the first fully quantitative study of the Tuscan or Pisan census"Evidence Source
He was truly famous for the first fully quantitative study of the Tuscan or Pisan census, one of the first censuses of their first years.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
VISITED_INSTITUTION→
Harvard
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"including Harvard"Evidence Source
I basically went to a dozen or 14 people at universities all over the US, including Harvard.
Historical Methods
JOURNAL
SHIFTED_FOCUS_TO→
Anthropology and interpretative interdisciplinarity
FIELD
Surface Form:
"turned its focus mainly towards Anthropology and interpretative inter disciplinarity"Evidence Source
I haven’t looked for it recently because after the end of the 1980s it turned its focus mainly towards Anthropology and interpretative inter disciplinarity rather than the formal methods.
David Herlihy
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Harvard
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"In Harvard at that time there was an extremely prominent social or economic Historian named David Herlihy"
David Herlihy
PERSON
CONDUCTED_ONE_OF_FIRST_STUDIES_OF→
Italian censuses
SOURCE_TYPE
Surface Form:
"had done one of the very first studies of Italian censuses"Evidence Source
In Harvard at that time there was an extremely prominent social or economic Historian named David Herlihy who had done one of the very first studies of Italian censuses.
databases of work on social and economic History at Max Planck
DATABASE
HAS_SIZE→
about 200 MB
SIZE
Surface Form:
"databases of roughly about 200 MB"Evidence Source
In the early 1980s our work on social and economic History had led to databases of roughly about 200 MB, which now seems relatively trivial, but at that time, as will become clear in a moment, was rather large.
Historical Methods
JOURNAL
PUBLISHES_ON_TOPIC→
usage of computers for non-quantitative purposes in History
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"published very much about the usage of computers and particularly the usage of computers for non-quantitative purposes in History"Evidence Source
It published very much about the usage of computers and particularly the usage of computers for non-quantitative purposes in History.
Max Planck Society
ORGANISATION
CONSISTS_OF→
about 80 institutes
INSTITUTION_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"a collection of something like 80 institutes"
Max Planck Society
ORGANISATION
RUNS_JOINT_INFRASTRUCTURES→
joint infrastructures for Max Planck institutes
INFRASTRUCTURE
Surface Form:
"which run joint infrastructures"Evidence Source
It’s really not an institute but a collection of something like 80 institutes which run joint infrastructures.
Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Göttingen
CITY
Surface Form:
"Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen"Evidence Source
my first long-term work in the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen.
Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen
INSTITUTION
IS_TYPE_OF→
pure research institute not connected to a university
INSTITUTION_TYPE
Surface Form:
"a Max Planck Institute is a pure research institute, which is actually not connected to a university"Evidence Source
Now, a Max Planck Institute is a pure research institute, which is actually not connected to a university
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HIRED_FOR_PROJECT→
complex Social History analysis project based on family reconstitutions
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I was originally hired for a rather specific project that was supposed to be a complex Social History analysis based on things called family reconstitutions or extended family reconstitutions"Evidence Source
There I was originally hired for a rather specific project that was supposed to be a complex Social History analysis based on things called family reconstitutions or extended family reconstitutions, for specific types of Economic and Social History.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"my first long-term work in the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen"Evidence Source
What influenced me more systematically was simply the working conditions I found at the place where I had my first long-term work in the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen.
Historical Methods
JOURNAL
HAS_HEYDAY_IN→
1970s–1980s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"had its heyday from the 1970s until the 1980s"Evidence Source
What influenced me very much was Historical Methods, a journal which had its heyday from the 1970s until the 1980s.
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
project on comparison of the shape of medieval pottery
PROJECT
ANALYSES→
shape of medieval pottery
ARTEFACT_FEATURE
Surface Form:
"work on the comparison of the shape of medieval pottery"Evidence Source
at some stage we also did work on the comparison of the shape of medieval pottery, which has relatively few commonalities with documents at Auschwitz, but simply also has some data structures which can be supported if you have software which operates at the right level of generalisation.
Volkswagenstiftung
FUNDING_AGENCY
FUNDED_PROJECT→
new implementation of CLIO and related historical software
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I got a grant from the Volkswagenstiftung funding agency"Evidence Source
At the end of which this research project had emancipated itself to such an extent that I got a grant from the Volkswagenstiftung funding agency. This allowed me to start a new implementation of that software
SPSS
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
FOCUSES_ON→
specific canon of quantitative methods
METHOD
Surface Form:
"was focused on making a specific canon of methods (quantitative methods or analytical quantitative methods to be precise) available more or less to the researcher him or herself"Evidence Source
Behind that term was the assumption that previous software, like, for example, SPSS, was focused on making a specific canon of methods (quantitative methods or analytical quantitative methods to be precise) available more or less to the researcher him or herself.
first version of new implementation of CLIO
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
HAS_START_DATE→
1987
TIME
Surface Form:
"the implementation of the first version started in 1987"Evidence Source
Between the middle of the 1980s and 1990s (the implementation of the first version started in 1987) we worked on that software, making it available shortly after development began.
David Sabean
PERSON
INFLUENCED→
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
Surface Form:
"indirectly influenced me very much"Evidence Source
In this context David Sabean [...] indirectly influenced me very much, though not in detail, because he was not following things up very much himself.
CLIO
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
INVENTED_BY→
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the programming system CLIO"Evidence Source
my experience from Vienna of building systems which, at least in theory, should be used by the researchers themselves, let me then invent the programming system CLIO (Thaller 1987a)
computer system for family reconstitution at Max Planck Institute for History
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
PROCESSES_SOURCES→
marriage registers, death records and other named sources such as taxation and property lists
SOURCE_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"to create a computer system able to take the marriage registers of a village, find out which children belonged to which marriage, which death record belonged to which individual (which is called family reconstitution) and then to augment that with just about any conceivable source that contained names, lists of taxation, property lists and various other stuff"Evidence Source
Now my task, and that was exactly the job I was hired for, was to create a computer system able to take the marriage registers of a village, find out which children belonged to which marriage, which death record belonged to which individual (which is called family reconstitution) and then to augment that with just about any conceivable source that contained names, lists of taxation, property lists and various other stuff.
proto-industrialisation
CONCEPT
IS_DEFINED_AS→
phase when artisanry in agricultural areas was converted into systematic production, particularly in the textile pre-industry
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"is defined as the phase when artisanry in agricultural areas was, by various economic constructions, converted into a system where a relatively large portion of available income was also produced by the systematic production of items, particularly in the textile pre-industry or proto-industry"Evidence Source
Proto-industrialisation is defined as the phase when artisanry in agricultural areas was, by various economic constructions, converted into a system where a relatively large portion of available income was also produced by the systematic production of items, particularly in the textile pre-industry or proto-industry.
source-oriented data processing
CONCEPT
IS_DEFINED_AS→
conversion of everything in historical sources into analysable form
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"meant that you would try to take historical sources and try to convert “everything” (I hope you heard the quotes) that a source possibly contains into a form which then could be analysed for various purposes"Evidence Source
Source-oriented databases, as I understood them, or source-oriented data processing as I understood it, meant that you would try to take historical sources and try to convert “everything” (I hope you heard the quotes) that a source possibly contains into a form which then could be analysed for various purposes.
summer schools on CLIO and source-oriented data processing
EVENT_SERIES
HAD_PARTICIPANT_COUNT→
about 100 participants
NUMBER
Surface Form:
"brought something like 100 people together"
summer schools on CLIO and source-oriented data processing
EVENT_SERIES
HAD_DURATION→
2 weeks
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"for 2 weeks"Evidence Source
summer schools (1987 to 1992, 1994 and 1997) which at the height of the development brought something like 100 people together for 2 weeks
Sicherung und verbesserte Erschließung der Quellen im Archiv des Staatlichen Museums Auschwitz-Birkenau
PROJECT
AIMS_TO→
making the content of archives of the former concentration camp at Auschwitz available
PROJECT_OBJECTIVE
Surface Form:
"involved some early work on making the content of archives of the former concentration camp at Auschwitz available"Evidence Source
There have been quite a few of these, one of which, for example, involved some early work on making the content of archives of the former concentration camp at Auschwitz available (Sicherung und verbesserte Erschließung der Quellen im Archiv des Staatlichen Museums Auschwitz-Birkenau Footnote4)
new implementation of CLIO
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
IMPLEMENTED_IN_LANGUAGE→
C
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"not implemented in PL/1 anymore but in the programming language C"Evidence Source
This allowed me to start a new implementation of that software that was not implemented in PL/1 anymore but in the programming language C
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
COINED_TERM→
source-oriented data processing
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"for which I invented the term “source-oriented data processing”"Evidence Source
This meant that within a relatively short period of something like 5 years, what originally had clearly been a supportive function for a specific number of research projects gained the status of an abstract research project on its own, simply geared towards building a general software system for historical purposes, for which I invented the term “source-oriented data processing” (see Thaller 1987b, 1988, 1991).
summer schools on CLIO and source-oriented data processing
EVENT_SERIES
OCCURRED_IN_YEARS→
1987–1992, 1994, 1997
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"summer schools (1987 to 1992, 1994 and 1997)"Evidence Source
We also made it available by providing summer schools (1987 to 1992, 1994 and 1997) which at the height of the development brought something like 100 people together for 2 weeks, to show how you could handle historical sources based on that type of software.
CLIO
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
CAN_BE_USED_FOR→
all types of historical sources
SOURCE_TYPE
Surface Form:
"could be used for, theoretically, all types of historical sources"Evidence Source
which in any case was rather general and could be used for, theoretically, all types of historical sources.
CLIO
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
HAS_COMMAND_LANGUAGE→
Latin
LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"probably the only modestly widely used system with a command language in Latin"Evidence Source
which some people still remember because it’s probably the only modestly widely used system with a command language in Latin
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
ALLC and ACH conference in Siegen in 1990
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZED_BY→
ALLC and ACH
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"the conference of the ALLC and the ACH in Siegen"
ALLC and ACH conference in Siegen in 1990
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
Siegen
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Siegen"Evidence Source
at the conference of the ALLC and the ACH in Siegen in [1990]
Duderstadt
CITY
LOCATED_IN→
Lower Saxony
REGION
Surface Form:
"Duderstadt in lower Saxony"Evidence Source
I had immediately afterwards the possibility to point out that the not so widely known city of Duderstadt in lower Saxony had online about twice as many pages of fairly obscure material from the fifteenth century!
Library of Congress in Washington
INSTITUTION
UNVEILED_DIGITAL_EDITION→
first version of the George Washington papers
DIGITAL_EDITION
Surface Form:
"unveiled, with great pathos, the first version of the George Washington papers"Evidence Source
sitting on a panel beside a representative of the Library of Congress in Washington who unveiled, with great pathos, the first version of the George Washington papers.
Manfred Thaller and collaborators
GROUP
PRESENTED_SOFTWARE_AT_CONFERENCE→
ALLC and ACH conference in Siegen in 1990
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"at the conference of the ALLC and the ACH in Siegen in [1990] we presented a workstation with the kind of software I’m talking about"Evidence Source
So, at the conference of the ALLC and the ACH in Siegen in [1990] we presented a workstation with the kind of software I’m talking about, which showed, among other things, a very, very early version of this image processing software.
mid-1990s manuscript digitisation project
PROJECT
IMPLEMENTED_FEATURE_FOR→
handling manuscript variants more meaningfully
METHOD
Surface Form:
"we had a separate section where we implemented the possibility of handling manuscript variants in a way that is more meaningful than how it is typically done"Evidence Source
So, while digitisation was the main point of the project, we had a separate section where we implemented the possibility of handling manuscript variants in a way that is more meaningful than how it is typically done.
image processing project with Austrian Institute
PROJECT
RUNS_ON→
Unix workstations
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"working on Unix workstations"Evidence Source
we entered image processing, which is digitisation, image enhancement, pattern recognition in 1988 or 1989, working on Unix workstations
mid-1990s manuscript digitisation project
PROJECT
DIGITIZED_PAGES→
60,000–70,000 pages of manuscripts
DIGITAL_CORPUS
Surface Form:
"digitise a substantial amount of manuscripts, something like 60,000 pages or 70,000 pages"Evidence Source
We got a research grant in the middle of the 1990s which allowed us to digitise a substantial amount of manuscripts, something like 60,000 pages or 70,000 pages, and make them available over the internet (see Aumann et al. 1999).
image processing project with Austrian Institute
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE_APPROX→
1988–1989
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in 1988 or 1989"Evidence Source
Well, still cooperating with that Austrian Institute where I had my first contract in 1976, we entered image processing, which is digitisation, image enhancement, pattern recognition in 1988 or 1989, working on Unix workstations
mid-1990s manuscript digitisation project
PROJECT
MADE_AVAILABLE_ON→
the internet
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"make them available over the internet"Evidence Source
which allowed us to digitise a substantial amount of manuscripts, something like 60,000 pages or 70,000 pages, and make them available over the internet (see Aumann et al. 1999).
Julianne Nyhan
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Manfred Thaller
Professorship for Computer Science for the Humanities in Cologne
POSITION
OFFERED_BY→
University of Cologne
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Cologne then offered a Professorship for Computer Science for the Humanities"Evidence Source
But when Cologne then offered a Professorship for Computer Science for the Humanities, where I had the possibility to build up my own study programs and also attract funding for projects that I could get involved in personally, rather than only managing them, this had so much attraction that I went south again, ending up instead on the Rhine at Cologne.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
TAUGHT_SUBJECT_WITH_METHODS→
History connected to digital methods
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I did a bit of teaching in History that was connected to digital methods"Evidence Source
I did a bit of teaching in History that was connected to digital methods
University of Bergen
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Bergen, Norway
PLACE
Surface Form:
"University of Bergen"Evidence Source
I was then asked to move fully to the University of Bergen to direct the merger of three independent research units there
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
DIRECTED_MERGER_AT→
University of Bergen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"asked to move fully to the University of Bergen to direct the merger of three independent research units there"Evidence Source
I was then asked to move fully to the University of Bergen to direct the merger of three independent research units there, which covered the whole scope from editorial Philology right through to Museum Information Systems.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HELD_PARALLEL_APPOINTMENT_IN→
Bergen, Norway
PLACE
Surface Form:
"I had a parallel appointment in Bergen, Norway"Evidence Source
No, already during my last years at Max Planck in Göttingen, I had a parallel appointment in Bergen, Norway.
merged research unit at University of Bergen
DEPARTMENT
HAD_STAFF_SIZE→
about 30 people
NUMBER
Surface Form:
"was something like a 30-person infrastructure for IT usage in the Humanities in the University of Bergen"Evidence Source
So that was a fairly large unit which, when it had been merged, was something like a 30-person infrastructure for IT usage in the Humanities in the University of Bergen.
merged research unit at University of Bergen
DEPARTMENT
COVERED_SCOPE→
editorial Philology to Museum Information Systems
FIELD_RANGE
Surface Form:
"covered the whole scope from editorial Philology right through to Museum Information Systems"Evidence Source
three independent research units there, which covered the whole scope from editorial Philology right through to Museum Information Systems.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Manfred Thaller
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
SHIFTED_RESEARCH_FOCUS_FROM_TO→
from digital libraries to digital preservation
FIELD_CHANGE
Surface Form:
"out of digital libraries it was particularly easy to drift off into digital preservation"Evidence Source
and out of digital libraries it was particularly easy to drift off into digital preservation because that was relatively simple to fund.
Max Planck Institute for History
INSTITUTION
HAD_MORE_RESOURCES_THAN→
regular university
INSTITUTION_TYPE
Surface Form:
"at Max Planck funds were considerably more easily available than at a regular university"Evidence Source
And the other thing, of course, is that at Max Planck funds were considerably more easily available than at a regular university
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HELD_TEACHING_ASSIGNMENTS_AT→
more than a dozen universities
INSTITUTION_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"I think I collected teaching assignments at more than a dozen universities during my years at Max Planck"Evidence Source
I think I collected teaching assignments at more than a dozen universities during my years at Max Planck.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
WAS_HEAVILY_INVOLVED_IN→
summer schools
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"I was also heavily involved in summer schools"Evidence Source
I was also heavily involved in summer schools.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
SHIFTED_RESEARCH_FOCUS_FROM_TO→
from historical databases to digital libraries
FIELD_CHANGE
Surface Form:
"out of creating historical databases it was very simple to drift into digital libraries"Evidence Source
That may have brought me away from my original purposes because out of creating historical databases it was very simple to drift into digital libraries, particularly because it was easier to get funding for digital libraries than it was for historical databases
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
ATTRACTED_THIRD_PARTY_FUNDING_AT→
Cologne
PLACE
Surface Form:
"I can call myself extremely successful at inviting third party funding for research while being in Cologne"Evidence Source
though I have to say that in a sense I think I can call myself extremely successful at inviting third party funding for research while being in Cologne.
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
HAD_NO_STUDENTS_AT→
Max Planck Institute for History
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at Max Planck I had absolutely no contact with students, originally"Evidence Source
Well, that’s totally different, I mean, at Max Planck I had absolutely no contact with students, originally.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
FUNDED_BY→
Science Research Council
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"was funded by what was then called the Science Research Council"Evidence Source
an organisation called the Atlas Computer Laboratory, which was funded by what was then called the Science Research Council to provide computing support for universities
Andrew Morton
PERSON
CONDUCTED_TEXT_ANALYSIS_ON→
Pauline Epistles
TEXT
Surface Form:
"been doing this text analysis study of the Pauline Epistles with a computer"Evidence Source
Andrew Morton, who’d been doing this text analysis study of the Pauline Epistles with a computer.
Alan Jones
PERSON
USED_FACILITY→
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"he was doing his work at an organisation called the Atlas Computer Laboratory"Evidence Source
Because technology within the universities at that time was quite small, and very much focussed on Sciences, he was doing his work at an organisation called the Atlas Computer Laboratory, which was funded by what was then called the Science Research Council to provide computing support for universities.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
APPLIED_FOR_POSITION_AT→
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I applied for a job there"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"and they hired me"Evidence Source
I applied for a job there, having no qualifications in computing, and my only mathematical expertise was up to O level, and they hired me.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Oxford
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"did Classics at Oxford"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
Classics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"did Classics"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
OBTAINED_DEGREE_IN→
Egyptian with Akkadian
FIELD
Surface Form:
"did my final degree in Egyptian with Akkadian"Evidence Source
I did Classics at Oxford and then did my final degree in Egyptian with Akkadian.
Alan Jones
PERSON
CONDUCTED_TEXT_ANALYSIS_ON→
Koran
TEXT
Surface Form:
"doing some text analysis work on the Koran"Evidence Source
I met one of the lecturers in Arabic, called Alan Jones, and found out that he was already doing some computing things. I think my tutor told me about him and I met him and found out that he was doing some text analysis work on the Koran.
Andrew Morton
PERSON
PUBLISHED_IN→
The Observer
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"those articles in the Observer from Andrew Morton"Evidence Source
I remembered reading those articles in the Observer from Andrew Morton, who’d been doing this text analysis study of the Pauline Epistles with a computer.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
TAUGHT_AT→
Oxford University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I started giving courses there"Evidence Source
I started giving courses there and then we started developing more in different facilities.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WORKED_UNTIL→
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I stayed there until early 1975"Evidence Source
I stayed there until early 1975 when Oxford University decided they wanted to do something more on Computing in the Arts.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
HAS_EDUCATION_TIME_SPAN→
late 1960s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"I was an undergraduate in the late 1960s"Evidence Source
I was an undergraduate in the late 1960s.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
HAS_EMPLOYMENT_TIME_SPAN→
Oxford University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I was there from 1975 until I went to America in 1991"Evidence Source
I was there from 1975 until I went to America in 1991.
Graph plotter
TECHNOLOGY
USED_FOR→
graph output
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the latest technology then and the only way of doing graphs"Evidence Source
It was the latest technology then and the only way of doing graphs.
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Harwell site at Chilton
PLACE
Surface Form:
"is on the Harwell site at Chilton"Evidence Source
It’s been merged into many other things since then and is on the Harwell site at Chilton.
Teaching Officer for Computing in the Arts
POSITION
POSITION_CREATED_AT→
Oxford University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was first of all described as Teaching Officer for Computing in the Arts"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
HELD_POSITION_AT→
Teaching Officer for Computing in the Arts at Oxford University
POSITION
Surface Form:
"I applied for that job and got it"Evidence Source
So I applied for that job and got it and it was first of all described as Teaching Officer for Computing in the Arts.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WROTE_PROGRAMS_FOR→
Alan Jones’s Arabic concordances
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I wrote some programs to display Alan Jones’s Arabic concordances on a graph plotter"Evidence Source
So I wrote some programs to display Alan Jones’s Arabic concordances on a graph plotter, which is a really ancient device.
Atlas computer
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_DISTINCTION→
first ever paged memory computing machine
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the first ever paged memory computing machine"Evidence Source
the Atlas, which was the first ever paged memory computing machine.
COCOA
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
IMPLEMENTED_IN→
Atlas machine language
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"was written in the Atlas machine language"Evidence Source
they had several people using this COCOA concordance program, which I think was written in the Atlas machine language.
COCOA
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
REIMPLEMENTED_IN→
FORTRAN
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"a project to re-write it in FORTRAN"Evidence Source
They wanted something that would have a slightly better user interface, and something that would outlive Atlas, so they started a project to re-write it in FORTRAN.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ADVISED_PROJECT→
COCOA FORTRAN reimplementation project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I was an adviser on that project"Evidence Source
They wanted something that would have a slightly better user interface, and something that would outlive Atlas, so they started a project to re-write it in FORTRAN. I didn’t actually do the coding. I was an adviser on that project.
COCOA
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
RUNS_ON→
Atlas computer
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"running on the Atlas"Evidence Source
When I started they already had a concordance program called COCOA, which was running on the Atlas, which was the first ever paged memory computing machine.
Oxford University
INSTITUTION
DEVELOPED_FIELD→
Computing in the Arts
FIELD
Surface Form:
"decided they wanted to do something more on Computing in the Arts"Evidence Source
when Oxford University decided they wanted to do something more on Computing in the Arts, as it was called then, and they started looking for someone who could get people interested.
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
PROVIDES_COMPUTING_SUPPORT_FOR→
universities
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"to provide computing support for universities"Evidence Source
which was funded by what was then called the Science Research Council to provide computing support for universities
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
IBM
ORGANISATION
MANUFACTURED_SYSTEMS_FOR→
business computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"manufacturing systems in business computing"Evidence Source
I had read a few things about IBM, who were, in the main, manufacturing systems in business computing.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference in the UK (1970)
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"that is where I met Antonio Zampolli, who was there"Evidence Source
I know Busa wasn’t there but that is where I met Antonio Zampolli, who was there, as were quite a lot of other people.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference in the UK (1970)
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"I went to the first conference in this country in 1970 on what was called Literary and Linguistic Computing"Evidence Source
I know I read a lot about what was going on, and I went to the first conference in this country in 1970 on what was called Literary and Linguistic Computing.
Busa
PERSON
VISITED→
University of Oxford
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"him coming to Oxford and then coming to my office in Oxford"Evidence Source
I remember him coming to Oxford and then coming to my office in Oxford but that was probably in the late 1970s.
Busa
PERSON
WORKED_IN_FIELD_OF→
text analysis and humanities computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I found out about Busa then and started following up about what he was doing"Evidence Source
I spent quite a bit of time when I first got there looking around in the library and I found out about Busa then and started following up about what he was doing.
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
LIBRARY_HELD_JOURNAL→
CHum
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"they had a good library which included CHum right back to when it started in 1966"Evidence Source
The Atlas Computer Laboratory was generously funded and they had a good library which included CHum right back to when it started in 1966.
CHum
JOURNAL
HAS_START_DATE→
1966
TIME
Surface Form:
"when it started in 1966"Evidence Source
they had a good library which included CHum right back to when it started in 1966.
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
WAS_RESEARCH_ASSISTANT_OF→
Busa
PERSON
Surface Form:
"started as Busa’s research assistant"Evidence Source
You know, Antonio Zampolli started as Busa’s research assistant.
Busa
PERSON
WROTE_INTRODUCTION_IN_LANGUAGE→
Index Thomisticus
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"he wrote the introduction to his Thomas Aquinas thing in Latin"
Latin
LANGUAGE
USED_AS_LANGUAGE_OF→
Index Thomisticus introduction
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"wrote the introduction to his Thomas Aquinas thing in Latin"Evidence Source
You know, he wrote the introduction to his Thomas Aquinas thing in Latin, so that it could be read by a lot of different people.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Susan Hockey
PERSON
LEARNED_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE→
FORTRAN
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"I was given some books and they said read and get on with it. You need to learn FORTRAN"Evidence Source
I was given some books and they said read and get on with it. You need to learn FORTRAN and if you need any help come and ask, and that’s how I learned.
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
CREATED_POSITION_FOR→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"they created the job and hired me"Evidence Source
Well, they created the job and hired me. I’m not certain that it was created for me but I was appointed to it.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Susan Hockey
PERSON
LEARNED_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE→
ALGOL
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"I learned some ALGOL"Evidence Source
And I learned some ALGOL, a little bit of Atlas machine code, and I started seriously doing SNOBOL when I wanted to give a programming course in Oxford and it seemed the obvious thing for text handling.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
LEARNED_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE→
Atlas machine code
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"a little bit of Atlas machine code"Evidence Source
And I learned some ALGOL, a little bit of Atlas machine code, and I started seriously doing SNOBOL when I wanted to give a programming course in Oxford.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
USED_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE_FOR→
SNOBOL
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"I started seriously doing SNOBOL when I wanted to give a programming course in Oxford"Evidence Source
and I started seriously doing SNOBOL when I wanted to give a programming course in Oxford and it seemed the obvious thing for text handling.
FORTRAN
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
USED_FOR_APPLICATIONS_AT→
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"FORTRAN was the thing that everybody used for almost all the applications in the Atlas Computer Laboratory"Evidence Source
FORTRAN was the thing that everybody used for almost all the applications in the Atlas Computer Laboratory.
Atlas Computer Laboratory
INSTITUTION
LACKED_COMPILER_FOR→
SNOBOL
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"they didn’t really have a proper compiler for it there"Evidence Source
I think I looked at that a bit when I was at the Atlas Computer Laboratory but they didn’t really have a proper compiler for it there.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Susan Hockey
PERSON
CHAIR_OF→
ALLC
SOCIETY
Surface Form:
"I got elected to be the Chair"Evidence Source
and then I got elected to be the Chair, which I actually did for quite a long time.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
EDITED→
ALLC Bulletin
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"I was editing the ALLC Bulletin"Evidence Source
and then I was editing the ALLC Bulletin, and then I got elected to be the Chair, which I actually did for quite a long time.
ALLC
SOCIETY
FOUNDED_AT→
King’s College London
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"there was a meeting at King’s College in London in 1973 when it was formed"
ALLC
SOCIETY
HAS_FOUNDING_DATE→
1973
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1973 when it was formed"Evidence Source
And there was a meeting at King’s College in London in 1973 when it was formed.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCE→
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference (Cambridge 1970)
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"He and I went to what I think was the first Literary Linguistic and Computing conference in the UK, in Cambridge in 1970"Evidence Source
He and I went to what I think was the first Literary Linguistic and Computing conference in the UK, in Cambridge in 1970, and we gave a preliminary talk on what we were planning to do with all this non-standard character output.
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
EDITED_PROCEEDINGS_OF→
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference proceedings
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I think Roy Wisbey edited the first one, which was published by Cambridge"
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference proceedings
PROJECT
PUBLISHED_BY→
Cambridge University Press
PUBLISHER
Surface Form:
"was published by Cambridge"Evidence Source
I think Roy Wisbey edited the first one, which was published by Cambridge.
Joan Smith
PERSON
INITIATED_FOUNDING_OF→
ALLC
SOCIETY
Surface Form:
"was in Manchester then, and she was energetic and felt it would be a good idea to form a society to support all of this. She persuaded Roy Wisbey to take on doing this"Evidence Source
That was before the ALLC was founded: there was a lady called Joan Smith, who was in Manchester then, and she was energetic and felt it would be a good idea to form a society to support all of this. She persuaded Roy Wisbey to take on doing this.
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference (Cambridge 1970)
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
Cambridge
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Cambridge in 1970"Evidence Source
the first Literary Linguistic and Computing conference in the UK, in Cambridge in 1970
ALLC
SOCIETY
PUBLISHED→
ALLC Bulletin and journal
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"The Society ran its own bulletin and journal for quite some time"Evidence Source
The Society ran its own bulletin and journal for quite some time.
First Literary and Linguistic Computing conference (Cambridge 1970)
CONFERENCE
HAS_APPROX_ATTENDANCE→
70 or 80 people
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"There were about 70 or 80 people there"Evidence Source
There were about 70 or 80 people there and that’s when I first met people who subsequently became quite well known worldwide in the field.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
MET_AT_CONFERENCE→
Joseph Raben
PERSON
Surface Form:
"that’s when I first met people who subsequently became quite well known worldwide in the field. I met Joseph Raben, for example"Evidence Source
There were about 70 or 80 people there and that’s when I first met people who subsequently became quite well known worldwide in the field. I met Joseph Raben, for example, and Bob and Joe got on very well, so we kept in touch a lot.
Literary and Linguistic Computing conferences
CONFERENCE_SERIES
HELD_PERIODICALLY_IN→
Edinburgh and other European venues
PLACE
Surface Form:
"another one was organised in Edinburgh 2 years later and I think they carried on every 2 years for about 10 or 12 years"Evidence Source
These conferences were such a success that another one was organised in Edinburgh 2 years later and I think they carried on every 2 years for about 10 or 12 years and more people kept coming.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
MEMBER_OF_COMMITTEE→
ALLC
SOCIETY
Surface Form:
"I think I ended up on the committee of the ALLC fairly early on"Evidence Source
Yes, I think I ended up on the committee of the ALLC fairly early on, and then I was editing the ALLC Bulletin, and then I got elected to be the Chair, which I actually did for quite a long time.
Bob Churchhouse
PERSON
CHAIR_OF→
Cardiff
PLACE
Surface Form:
"who left to take up a chair at Cardiff"Evidence Source
Yes, not my immediate boss, but the person that I did quite a bit of work for when there was called Bob Churchhouse, who left to take up a chair at Cardiff.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
TEI
PROJECT
FUNDED_BY→
European Commission
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Antonio was instrumental in getting some money from a European Commission stream"Evidence Source
Antonio was instrumental in getting some money from a European Commission stream.
TEI
PROJECT
HAS_SOCIETY_REPRESENTATION→
ALLC, ACH, Association for Computational Linguistics
SOCIETY
Surface Form:
"organise it with two representatives of the three societies that were involved with it. There was the ALLC, ACH and the Association for Computational Linguistics"Evidence Source
I think it was at that meeting that it was decided to organise it with two representatives of the three societies that were involved with it. There was the ALLC, ACH and the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
REPRESENTED_SOCIETY_IN→
TEI Steering Committee
COUNCIL
Surface Form:
"I was one of the two ALLC representatives on the Steering Committee"
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
REPRESENTED_SOCIETY_IN→
TEI Steering Committee
COUNCIL
Surface Form:
"The other was Antonio Zampolli"Evidence Source
I was one of the two ALLC representatives on the Steering Committee. The other was Antonio Zampolli.
TEI
PROJECT
HAS_ORIGIN_MEETING→
Vassar College TEI planning meeting (Poughkeepsie 1987)
EVENT
Surface Form:
"TEI started with a meeting organized at Vassar College Poughkeepsie in 1987, November"Evidence Source
TEI started with a meeting organized at Vassar College Poughkeepsie in 1987, November, I think, and that was invitational.
Vassar College TEI planning meeting (Poughkeepsie 1987)
EVENT
LOCATED_IN→
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at Vassar College Poughkeepsie"
Vassar College TEI planning meeting (Poughkeepsie 1987)
EVENT
HAS_START_DATE→
November 1987
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1987, November"Evidence Source
TEI started with a meeting organized at Vassar College Poughkeepsie in 1987, November.
Don Walker
PERSON
SUPPORTED_PROJECT→
TEI
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"whose long term Secretary Don Walker had also realised that this was something important"Evidence Source
There was the ALLC, ACH and the Association for Computational Linguistics, whose long term Secretary Don Walker had also realised that this was something important.
TEI Steering Committee
COUNCIL
HAD_CHAIR→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"We took it in turns to chair the Steering Committee and when it was the ALLC turn it was me"Evidence Source
There were six of us, I suppose, who organized it. We took it in turns to chair the Steering Committee and when it was the ALLC turn it was me.
TEI
PROJECT
FUNDED_BY→
NEH
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"We got some money from the NEH to get started"Evidence Source
We got some money from the NEH to get started and Antonio was instrumental in getting some money from a European Commission stream.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
CO_DEFINED→
Poughkeepsie principles
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"We sat for an afternoon and defined these things which became known as the Poughkeepsie principles"
Poughkeepsie principles
CONCEPT
DEFINES_BASIC_PRINCIPLES_FOR→
TEI
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"these things which became known as the Poughkeepsie principles"Evidence Source
We sat for an afternoon and defined these things which became known as the Poughkeepsie principles.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
TEI
PROJECT
FUNDED_MEETINGS→
TEI face to face meetings
EVENT
Surface Form:
"we did have funding to have face to face meetings"Evidence Source
But we soon discovered how difficult it is to get closure on an email discussion and we did have funding to have face to face meetings, which really were very productive.
TEI
PROJECT
REQUIRED_COMMUNICATION_VIA→
email
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"we said in the TEI right from the beginning that anybody who wanted to do any work for it had to do it by email"Evidence Source
We said in the TEI right from the beginning that anybody who wanted to do any work for it had to do it by email.
Julianne Nyhan
Julianne Nyhan
PERSON
SERVED_ON→
TEI council
COUNCIL
Surface Form:
"I served on the TEI council a few years ago"Evidence Source
I served on the TEI council a few years ago and email is still certainly at the heart of all of it.
Susan Hockey
Joseph Raben
PERSON
SOUGHT_TO_SUPPORT→
CHum
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"was interested in having some kind of society to support CHum"Evidence Source
I can’t remember the details about the founding of ACH, but Joseph Raben was interested in having some kind of society to support CHum, which had been round various publishers.
ACH
SOCIETY
FOUNDED_TO_SUPPORT→
CHum
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"society to support CHum"Evidence Source
I can’t remember the details about the founding of ACH, but Joseph Raben was interested in having some kind of society to support CHum.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
ACH
SOCIETY
Surface Form:
"I was a member of the ACH for quite some time"Evidence Source
I did go to quite a number of those as well. I was a member of the ACH for quite some time but I don’t really remember exactly what happened about the organization of that.
ACH
SOCIETY
FOUNDED_AFTER→
ALLC
SOCIETY
Surface Form:
"perhaps 4 or 5 years after the ALLC"Evidence Source
I think it was later than that. I think it was perhaps 4 or 5 years after the ALLC.
University of Waterloo conference 1977
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
University of Waterloo
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the third one of those was at the University of Waterloo in 1977"Evidence Source
the Americans had sort of looked a little bit at what was going on in Britain and they’d started a series of conferences in the alternate years and the third one of those was at the University of Waterloo in 1977.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
APPLIED_CL_TO_LITERARY_TEXTS→
Dante and other works of Italian literature
TEXT
Surface Form:
"even in the 1980s to do work, to try and apply the tools and techniques they’d developed for Computational Linguistics to see how well they worked with literary texts like Dante and other works of Italian literature"Evidence Source
Antonio was really keen, even in the 1980s to do work, to try and apply the tools and techniques they’d developed for Computational Linguistics to see how well they worked with literary texts like Dante and other works of Italian literature.
David Barnard
PERSON
HELD_POSITION_AT→
Queens University (Computer Science)
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"when he was Professor of Computer Science at Queens University, in Canada"Evidence Source
David Barnard who was involved in the TEI quite a bit when he was Professor of Computer Science at Queens University, in Canada.
Paul Fortier
PERSON
BELONGED_TO_FIELD→
French Studies
FIELD
Surface Form:
"He was in French Studies"Evidence Source
He was in French Studies and he said that nobody spoke to him at the first conference he went to in French Studies and he vowed it would never happen in this field.
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
PROMOTED_LINK_BETWEEN_FIELDS→
Literary computing and Computational Linguistics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"he was very, very keen on linking up literary computing with research that was going on in Computational Linguistics"Evidence Source
He was very, very keen on linking up literary computing with research that was going on in Computational Linguistics.
David Barnard
PERSON
HOLDS_POSITION_AT→
University of Manitoba
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"He’s now the President at the University of Manitoba"Evidence Source
He’s now the President at the University of Manitoba.
Bob Churchhouse
PERSON
MENTORED→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Two people who helped me a lot when I started were Bob Churchhouse and Alan Jones"
Alan Jones
PERSON
MENTORED→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Two people who helped me a lot when I started were Bob Churchhouse and Alan Jones"Evidence Source
Two people who helped me a lot when I started were Bob Churchhouse and Alan Jones – I’ve already mentioned them.
Busa
PERSON
STARTED_PROJECT_IN→
lemmatized text of Thomas Aquinas
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"in the 1950s he wanted to have a completely lemmatized version of his text"Evidence Source
You know, in the 1950s he wanted to have a completely lemmatized version of his text and we still can’t really do that automatically now.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
Humanities in Oxford (except Oriental Studies)
DEPARTMENT
LACKED_COMPUTING_FACILITIES→
departmental computing facilities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Humanities, at that time in Oxford, except for Oriental Studies, had no departmental facilities"Evidence Source
because Humanities, at that time in Oxford, except for Oriental Studies, had no departmental facilities.
St Cross College
COLLEGE
FIRST_TO_HAVE_COMPUTER_IN→
Oxford colleges
COLLEGE
Surface Form:
"it was actually the first college to have a computer in Oxford"Evidence Source
But St Cross was also very forward looking and it was actually the first college to have a computer in Oxford.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Kenneth Dover
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I did quite a bit of work with Kenneth Dover as well, a very well-known classicist"
Kenneth Dover
PERSON
BELONGED_TO_FIELD→
Classics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"a very well-known classicist"Evidence Source
I did quite a bit of work with Kenneth Dover as well, a very well-known classicist.
Orlando project
PROJECT
INVOLVED_RESEARCHER→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"there was a very big project which I was extremely interested in, and I did quite a bit of work with, the Orlando project"Evidence Source
I think the same was true in Alberta where there was a very big project which I was extremely interested in, and I did quite a bit of work with, the Orlando project, and that was really pushing the boundaries of what you can do.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Computing Center in Oxford
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"I was 16 years in the Computing Center in Oxford"Evidence Source
I was 16 years in the Computing Center in Oxford.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ELECTED_FELLOW_OF→
St Cross College
COLLEGE
Surface Form:
"I was elected to a fellowship of St Cross College in 1979"
St Cross College
COLLEGE
IS_GRADUATE_COLLEGE_OF→
University of Oxford
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"which was one of the new young graduate colleges"Evidence Source
I was elected to a fellowship of St Cross College in 1979, which was one of the new young graduate colleges.
electronic resources in libraries
CONCEPT
STORED_ON→
CD-ROMs
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"they were almost all CD-ROMs"Evidence Source
It was very, very early days for computing and electronic resources in libraries anyway – they were almost all CD-ROMs.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
library in New Jersey
LIBRARY
Surface Form:
"My next job in New Jersey was based in a library"Evidence Source
My next job in New Jersey was based in a library and that had a different atmosphere.
Anthony Kenny
PERSON
CONDUCTED_COMPUTER_BASED_STUDIES_WITH→
concordances
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"who did various computer-based stylistic studies based on concordances"Evidence Source
particularly Anthony Kenny, the well-known Philosopher, who did various computer-based stylistic studies based on concordances.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
JOINED_DEPARTMENT_IN→
Humanities department in Alberta
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"I wasn’t ever in a Humanities department until I got to Alberta"Evidence Source
So because I wasn’t ever in a Humanities department until I got to Alberta where there was a very stimulating intellectual atmosphere, I didn’t really have much cause to be around people who weren’t computing.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Susan Hockey
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Critical edition project of St Augustine’s The City of God
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE→
around 1960
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"this was around 1960"Evidence Source
(this was around 1960)
Silvio Ceccato
PERSON
HELD_POSITION_AT→
University of Milan
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"he was Professor at the University of Milan"Evidence Source
he was one of the first Italian intellectuals – and he was Professor at the University of Milan, of course – to become interested in the Artificial Intelligences
Silvio Ceccato
PERSON
INTERESTED_IN→
Artificial Intelligence
FIELD
Surface Form:
"to become interested in the Artificial Intelligences"
Silvio Ceccato
PERSON
AMONG_FIRST_INTELLECTUALS_INTERESTED_IN→
Artificial Intelligence
FIELD
Surface Form:
"one of the first Italian intellectuals – and he was Professor at the University of Milan, of course – to become interested in the Artificial Intelligences"Evidence Source
he was one of the first Italian intellectuals – and he was Professor at the University of Milan, of course – to become interested in the Artificial Intelligences or methods to produce artificial reasoning
IBM
ORGANISATION
HAS_SHOP_IN→
Milan
CITY
Surface Form:
"their shop in Milan"Evidence Source
I saw IBM machines in the window of their shop in Milan in the 1950s
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
FIRST_BECAME_AWARE_OF_COMPUTING_IN→
1950s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in the 1950s and so I became aware that something like that existed"Evidence Source
I saw IBM machines in the window of their shop in Milan in the 1950s and so I became aware that something like that existed
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
STUDIED→
Philology
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I was studying Philology at the time"Evidence Source
I was studying Philology at the time
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
ORIGINATED→
Critical edition project of St Augustine’s The City of God
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"I was, in a sense, the originator of the project"Evidence Source
I was, in a sense, the originator of the project, because I spoke with my Professor of Philology, Ignazio Cazzaniga, about it
Ignazio Cazzaniga
PERSON
IS_PROFESSOR_OF→
Philology
FIELD
Surface Form:
"my Professor of Philology"Evidence Source
my Professor of Philology, Ignazio Cazzaniga
Critical edition project of St Augustine’s The City of God
PROJECT
TARGETS_TEXT→
St Augustine’s The City of God
TEXT
Surface Form:
"making a critical edition in Latin of St Augustine’s The City of God"
Critical edition project of St Augustine’s The City of God
PROJECT
USES_TECHNOLOGY→
card computers
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"with the help of those card computers"Evidence Source
to explore the possibilities of making a critical edition in Latin of St Augustine’s The City of God, with the help of those card computers
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
BEGAN_COMPUTING_WORK_AT→
Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"when I went to the Centro di calcolo (the Computer Centre) of the University of Rome everything really began"Evidence Source
But when I went to the Centro di calcolo (the Computer Centre) of the University of Rome everything really began
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
HAS_RESEARCH_MATERIAL→
Coptic manuscripts and other literature
TEXT_CORPUS
Surface Form:
"By the late 1970s I had collected a great amount of information pertaining to Coptic manuscripts and other literature"
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
DEALS_WITH_MATERIAL_SINCE→
late 1970s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"By the late 1970s"Evidence Source
By the late 1970s I had collected a great amount of information pertaining to Coptic manuscripts and other literature
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
CONTACTED→
Nixdorf Computer AG
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I contacted some companies like Nixdorf Computer AG"Evidence Source
I contacted some companies like Nixdorf Computer AG,Footnote3 and others, in order to explore the possibilities that existed then
Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
PART_OF→
University of Rome
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the Centro di calcolo (the Computer Centre) of the University of Rome"
Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
HAS_FUNCTION→
Computer Centre
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the Computer Centre"Evidence Source
the Centro di calcolo (the Computer Centre) of the University of Rome
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
WORKED_WITH→
personnel of the Computer Centre of the University of Rome
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I worked with them with much satisfaction"Evidence Source
the personnel there who were available to help me were really good and I worked with them with much satisfaction
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Silvio Ceccato
PERSON
ATTRIBUTED_THINKING_TO→
computers
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"he had also seen that those machines could, in a way, think"Evidence Source
As I mentioned, Professor Ceccato, but he had also seen that those machines could, in a way, think
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Silvio Ceccato
PERSON
STUDIED_RELATION_BETWEEN→
pure thinking and automatic procedures
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"he had seen the relationship between pure thinking and automatic procedures"Evidence Source
I mean, he had seen the relationship between pure thinking and automatic procedures
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Luigi Cerofolini
PERSON
WORKS_IN_FIELD→
Applied mathematics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"He was an applied mathematician"
Luigi Cerofolini
PERSON
STUDIED→
logical theory of numbers
FIELD
Surface Form:
"studied the logical theory of numbers"Evidence Source
He was an applied mathematician who also studied the logical theory of numbers
Luigi Cerofolini
PERSON
OPPOSED_FIELD→
Artificial Intelligence
FIELD
Surface Form:
"he hated Artificial Intelligence"Evidence Source
He was very realistic, very straightforward. There was no charlatanism in his approach and he hated Artificial Intelligence
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
HAS_TEACHER_IN_COMPUTING→
Luigi Cerofolini
PERSON
Surface Form:
"The man I consider my real teacher in computing and also Humanities Computing is Luigi Cerofolini"Evidence Source
The man I consider my real teacher in computing and also Humanities Computing is Luigi Cerofolini
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Omnidata Database Management System
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
RUNS_ON→
UNIVAC mainframe of the Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"then running on the UNIVAC mainframe of the centre"Evidence Source
a Database Management System (called Omnidata), then running on the UNIVAC mainframe of the centre
Unix system
TECHNOLOGY
IS_IMPORTANT_FOR→
practical side of Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"from the practical side is the Unix system"Evidence Source
and from the practical side is the Unix system
Unix
TECHNOLOGY
DEFINED_AS→
environment system
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Unix is not an operating system, it is an environment system"Evidence Source
Cerofolini taught me that Unix is not an operating system, it is an environment system
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
ENCOUNTERED_CONCEPT→
Turing machine
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"First, I encountered the Turing machine and I had never heard about that before"Evidence Source
First, I encountered the Turing machine and I had never heard about that before
Turing machine
CONCEPT
IS_IMPORTANT_FOR→
theoretical side of Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"from the theoretical side is the Turing machine"Evidence Source
I insist, and nobody in Humanities Computing wants to acknowledge this, but I think that what is most important from the theoretical side is the Turing machine
Mirella Schaerf
PERSON
HAS_ROLE→
Director of the Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
POSITION
Surface Form:
"the Director"
Mirella Schaerf
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"the Director"Evidence Source
Mirella Schaerf, the Director, was very helpful
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
ENCOUNTERED_TECHNOLOGY→
Unix
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"Second, I encountered Unix"Evidence Source
Second, I encountered Unix
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
USED_SYSTEM→
Omnidata Database Management System
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"gave me free access"Evidence Source
She explained how it worked and gave me free access
Mirella Schaerf
PERSON
PROVIDED_SYSTEM→
Omnidata Database Management System
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"provided a Database Management System (called Omnidata)"Evidence Source
she understood my problems and provided a Database Management System (called Omnidata), then running on the UNIVAC mainframe of the centre
Mirella Schaerf
PERSON
HAS_PROFESSION→
Engineer
PROFESSION
Surface Form:
"She was an engineer"Evidence Source
She was an engineer and she understood my problems
Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
PART_OF→
University of Rome
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the Computing Centre of the University of Rome"Evidence Source
the Centro di calcolo, the Computing Centre of the University of Rome
UNIVAC mainframe of the Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
TECHNOLOGY
LOCATED_IN→
Centro di calcolo of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"mainframe of the centre"Evidence Source
UNIVAC mainframe of the centre
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Turing machine
CONCEPT
LINKS→
logic, reason and material computation
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"a mystic-philosophical link between logic, reason and something that materially happens, that is the computer or whatever"Evidence Source
I have understood that the Turing machine is mysterious and also, in a sense, a mystic-philosophical link between logic, reason and something that materially happens, that is the computer or whatever
computer
CONCEPT
DEFINED_AS→
anything that can perform automatic procedures on discreet quantities
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"It is anything that can perform automatic procedures on discreet quantities"Evidence Source
You know the computer is not only what we generally call ‘a computer’? It is anything that can perform automatic procedures on discreet quantities
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
logical part of Humanities research
FIELD
MAY_BE_AUTOMATED_WITH→
computers
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"That part of Humanities may be automated"Evidence Source
However, when one develops a historical proposition they must construct it logically. If it is not logically constructed it is intrinsically contradictory and does not stand. That part of Humanities may be automated with enormous consequences in the sense that computers (this is banal but this is where it enters) can manage quantities of memories that the human brain cannot
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Father Roberto Busa
PERSON
HAD_RELATION_WITH→
IBM
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"his relationship with IBM"Evidence Source
although his relationship with IBM (which at the time did not include real computation, like the UNIVAC, for example) is, of course, established
William Weaver
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
artificial translation and automatic translation
FIELD
Surface Form:
"the work of William Weaver"
Norbert Wiener
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
artificial translation and automatic translation
FIELD
Surface Form:
"the work of William Weaver, Norbert Wiener, and others"Evidence Source
Here I’m referring, of course, to the work of William Weaver, Norbert Wiener, and others
experiments on artificial translation and automatic translation
PROJECT
CONSIDERED_BEGINNINGS_OF→
Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"The real beginnings of Humanities Computing can be found in some experiments, especially on artificial translation and automatic translation"Evidence Source
The real beginnings of Humanities Computing can be found in some experiments, especially on artificial translation and automatic translation
Jean-Claude Gardin
PERSON
CONDUCTED_EXPERIMENTS_IN→
archaeology using computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"the experiments of Jean-Claude Gardin and the new archaeology"Evidence Source
We must also look to some branches of archaeology, especially the experiments of Jean-Claude Gardin and the new archaeology, in America and beyond
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Mario Alinei
PERSON
CONDUCTED_COMPUTING_WORK_ON→
early Italian literary text
TEXT_CORPUS
Surface Form:
"the much more serious work done for the early Italian literary text by Mario Alinei and D’Arco Silvio Avalle"
D’Arco Silvio Avalle
PERSON
CONDUCTED_COMPUTING_WORK_ON→
early Italian literary text
TEXT_CORPUS
Surface Form:
"the much more serious work done for the early Italian literary text by Mario Alinei and D’Arco Silvio Avalle"Evidence Source
Indeed, the much more serious work done for the early Italian literary text by Mario Alinei and D’Arco Silvio Avalle does not come from Busa’s group
Father Roberto Busa
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
Society of Jesus
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"his being a Jesuit"Evidence Source
this may be something to do with his being a Jesuit and that is also important
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Peter Robinson’s Chaucer project
PROJECT
HAS_DATE→
1996
TIME
Surface Form:
"Chaucer (1996)"Evidence Source
Peter Robinson’s Chaucer (1996)
Peter Robinson’s Chaucer project
PROJECT
IS_CRITICAL_EDITION_PROJECT→
critical edition
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Regarding the first critical edition, for instance, what comes to my mind is Peter Robinson’s Chaucer (1996)"Evidence Source
Regarding the first critical edition, for instance, what comes to my mind is Peter Robinson’s Chaucer (1996)
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
IS_SELF_TAUGHT_IN→
computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"I trained myself using textbooks"Evidence Source
Absolutely not. I trained myself using textbooks
Archaeological Constructs: An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology
PUBLICATION
HAS_PUBLICATION_DATE→
1980
TIME
Surface Form:
"(1980)"Evidence Source
Archaeological Constructs: An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology (1980)
Jean Claude Gardin
PERSON
AUTHORED→
Archaeological Constructs: An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology
PUBLICATION
Surface Form:
"Jean Claude Gardin’s Archaeological Constructs: An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology (1980)"Evidence Source
Jean Claude Gardin’s Archaeological Constructs: An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology (1980)
Computer Centre of the University of Rome
DEPARTMENT
PROVIDED_TRAINING_TO→
Tito Orlandi
PERSON
Surface Form:
"The people at the University Computer Centre gave me some practical instruction"Evidence Source
The people at the University Computer Centre gave me some practical instruction
Julianne Nyhan
Digital Humanities (DH)
FIELD
USED_AS_LABEL_FOR→
Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"this term that’s very often used now instead of Humanities Computing"Evidence Source
this move to DH, this term that’s very often used now instead of Humanities Computing
Tito Orlandi
digital
CONCEPT
NOT_EQUIVALENT_TO→
electronic
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"“digital” is not necessarily “electronic”, absolutely not"Evidence Source
And “digital” is not necessarily “electronic”, absolutely not
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Elizabeth Eisenstein
PERSON
DESCRIBED→
printing revolution
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"what Elizabeth Eisenstein (1980) calls the printing revolution"Evidence Source
It is a revolution like what Elizabeth Eisenstein (1980) calls the printing revolution
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"He was in Pisa at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Institute of Computational Linguistics) of the CNR"
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
INSTITUTION
PART_OF→
CNR
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"of the CNR"
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Pisa
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Pisa"Evidence Source
He was in Pisa at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Institute of Computational Linguistics) of the CNR
Jean-Claude Gardin
PERSON
REFLECTED_ON→
possibilities of computing
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"He was reflecting on the possibilities of computing in the 1950s"Evidence Source
He was reflecting on the possibilities of computing in the 1950s, but nobody knew
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_IN_COUNTRY→
Canada
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"when he worked in Canada still"Evidence Source
I met Willard McCarty here in Rome, at a meeting organised by the Canadian Embassy when he worked in Canada still
Jean-Claude Gardin
PERSON
AT_SOURCE_OF→
Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"he really is at the source of Humanities Computing"Evidence Source
I must say that Gardin is an exceptional case because he really is at the source of Humanities Computing
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
ASSOCIATED_WITH_COUNTRY→
Germany
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"In Germany I met Manfred Thaller"Evidence Source
In Germany I met Manfred Thaller (see Chap. 13)
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Manfred Thaller
PERSON
PRODUCED→
collection of reproductions of manuscripts in Cologne
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"He produced the collection of reproductions of manuscripts in Cologne"Evidence Source
He produced the collection of reproductions of manuscripts in Cologne, which is wonderful
collection of reproductions of manuscripts in Cologne
PROJECT
LOCATED_IN→
Cologne
CITY
Surface Form:
"manuscripts in Cologne"Evidence Source
the collection of reproductions of manuscripts in Cologne
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Noam Chomsky
PERSON
EXEMPLIFIES_INTERACTION_BETWEEN→
computing principles and languages
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"a good example of the real interaction between computing principles and languages"Evidence Source
Chomsky (who, on the other hand, is a good example of the real interaction between computing principles and languages
Geoffrey Sampson
PERSON
ASSOCIATED_WITH→
British National Corpus
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"Geoffrey Sampson and the British National Corpus"Evidence Source
Geoffrey Sampson and the British National CorpusFootnote5 and a lot of those enterprises are important too
Geoffrey Sampson
PERSON
AUTHORED→
Sampson 2015 book about alphabets
PUBLICATION
Surface Form:
"Sampson has written a wonderful book about alphabets (Sampson 2015)"Evidence Source
Sampson has written a wonderful book about alphabets (Sampson 2015)
British National Corpus
PROJECT
CREATED_BY→
Geoffrey Sampson
PERSON
Surface Form:
"one who creates the British National Corpus"Evidence Source
Sampson has written a wonderful book about alphabets (Sampson 2015), strange for one who creates the British National Corpus, you see
experiments in artificial translation
PROJECT
LED_TO_ADVANCEMENTS_IN→
linguistic theory
FIELD
Surface Form:
"The advancements in linguistic theory that emerged from the unfortunate experiments in artificial translation are very important"Evidence Source
The advancements in linguistic theory that emerged from the unfortunate experiments in artificial translation are very important
Geoffrey Sampson
PERSON
AUTHORED→
Sampson 2005 polemic against Chomsky
PUBLICATION
Surface Form:
"the polemic (Sampson 2005) he wrote against Chomsky"Evidence Source
The first is syntactical linguistics and the polemic (Sampson 2005) he wrote against Chomsky
Oxford Text Archive
PROJECT
PRECEDED→
Google
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"The Oxford Text ArchiveFootnote4 is a wonderful thing and, then, after that, came Google"Evidence Source
The Oxford Text ArchiveFootnote4 is a wonderful thing and, then, after that, came Google
encoding principles
CONCEPT
RELATED_TO→
alphabet theory
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"encoding principles, which is joined to alphabet theory"Evidence Source
The second is encoding principles, which is joined to alphabet theory
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
European community
ORGANISATION
RECOMMENDS_BUILDING→
infrastructures for many domains
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"The European community recommends the building of infrastructures for many domains"Evidence Source
You know, the trend now is infrastructures. The European community recommends the building of infrastructures for many domains
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
Oxford Patristic Conference
EVENT
ORIGINALLY_HELD_IN→
a meeting room
PLACE
Surface Form:
"when the Oxford Patristic ConferenceFootnote6 started it was not as huge as it is now, it was just held in a meeting room"Evidence Source
when the Oxford Patristic ConferenceFootnote6 started it was not as huge as it is now, it was just held in a meeting room
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Tito Orlandi
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Willard McCarty
PERSON
PROGRAMMED_IN→
IBM 7094 assembly language
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"working in"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
PROGRAMMED→
CDC 6600
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"wrote assembly language programs for this computer"
CDC 6600
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_CAPABILITY→
more than one program simultaneously
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"ran more than one program simultaneously"Evidence Source
From being a computer operator, then I got a job as a computer programmer, working in IBM assembly language — IBM 7094 assembly language — and then when the first computer that they had, which ran more than one program simultaneously — the CDC 6600 — came in, I wrote assembly language programs for this computer, which marked quite a change in my relationship with computers.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_WITH→
IBM 7094
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"computer operator of"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_WITH→
IBM 704
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"worked with an"Evidence Source
I eventually — the story is long and complex, and pretty much boring — I eventually got a job, first as a computer operator of IBM's 7094 and worked with an IBM 704, which was a drum-based machine that had 6000 valves in it.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"got a job in"
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Berkeley
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Berkeley"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
UC Berkeley
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"second year of university at"Evidence Source
It was at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley where I got a job in my second year of university at UC Berkeley.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
INSTITUTION
HAS_CONNECTION_TO→
Federal Government
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"had an intimate connection with"
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
INSTITUTION
HAS_CONNECTION_TO→
bomb-making counterparts in Livermore
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"had an intimate connection with"
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
INSTITUTION
HAS_DIRECT_ACCESS_TO→
computer manufacturers
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"had a direct line to"Evidence Source
So, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, because they had an intimate connection with the Federal Government and with their bomb-making counterparts in Livermore, had a direct line to computer manufacturers.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_IN_PERIOD→
early 1960s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"in Berkeley in the early 1960s"Evidence Source
That was in Berkeley in the early 1960s.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Willard McCarty
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
Reed College
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"transferred to"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
USED→
IBM 1401
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"worked on an"Evidence Source
and then English eventually, which is when I transferred to Reed College, where I worked on an IBM 1401, which is what they had in their so-called computer centre.
experimental programme in relativistic physics
PROGRAMME
DEVISED_BY→
Harvard
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"devised by"
experimental programme in relativistic physics
PROGRAMME
DEVISED_BY→
Berkeley
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"devised by"Evidence Source
second year physics, which was an experimental programme in relativistic physics devised by Harvard and Berkeley and taught for the first time that year
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Bill Gates (West Coast programmer)
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
physics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"had been a physics student"
Bill Gates (West Coast programmer)
PERSON
WORKED_AS→
computer programmer
ROLE
Surface Form:
"worked as a computer programmer"Evidence Source
a whiz kid who had been a physics student and fell in love with computers and thereafter just worked as a computer programmer
Willard McCarty
PERSON
APPRENTICED_TO→
Bill Gates (West Coast programmer)
PERSON
Surface Form:
"was apprenticed to"Evidence Source
At one point I was apprenticed to a young whiz kid, well I was young too then, I guess, but a whiz kid who had been a physics student and fell in love with computers and thereafter just worked as a computer programmer, his name was, oddly enough, Bill Gates, though not the Bill Gates.
Bill Gates (West Coast programmer)
PERSON
REWROTE_OPERATING_SYSTEM_OF→
CDC 6600
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"re-wrote the operating system of"Evidence Source
He was a legend among computer people of the West Coast — he and another guy re-wrote the operating system of the CDC 6600, for example, they were quite amazing.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Willard McCarty
PERSON
PROGRAMMED_IN→
Fortran
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"used to do all sorts of very clever things with"Evidence Source
Fortran was actually quite a good language by then and we used to do all sorts of very clever things with Fortran, including crashing the machine periodically.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Toronto
CITY
Surface Form:
"at Toronto"Evidence Source
a computing centre for the humanities — it was called Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto —
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_FOR→
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
Surface Form:
"as a programmer for"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
USED→
DECsystem-10
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"working on a DECsystem-10"Evidence Source
as a programmer for Ian Lancashire, basically working for him, although later on for other people in the project and working on a DECsystem-10, with an acoustic coupler modem, 300-baud acoustic coupler modem, programming various things for a compilation that he was putting together on English dramatic records.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Ovid's Metamorphoses
WORK
Surface Form:
"working on Ovid's Metamorphoses"Evidence Source
because I had been, by this time, working on Ovid's Metamorphoses, since there were no jobs in English, I thought I'd do what I wanted, which was to work on the Metamorphoses.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
WORK
HAS_SIZE→
12000 lines of Latin poetry
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"12000 lines of Latin poetry"Evidence Source
because it was a very large project — 12000 lines of Latin poetry — there's a lot of stuff in those 12000 lines.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"ended up at"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
17th century non-dramatic poetry
FIELD
Surface Form:
"to do a PhD in 17th century non-dramatic poetry"Evidence Source
but I ended up at the University of Toronto to do a PhD in 17th century non-dramatic poetry.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
GOT_JOB_AT→
King's
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"got the job at King's"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
ACTIVE_IN_PERIOD→
1984 to 1996
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"during that period from 1984 to 1996"Evidence Source
But it was during that period from 1984 to 1996, when I got the job at King's, that I was in a position not only to be involved with research as we think of it and so to try ideas out, but also to talk to people who were doing all kinds of different research
Ian Lancashire
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"formed a computing centre for the humanities"Evidence Source
but not explicitly until Ian formed a computing centre for the humanities — it was called Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto —
Willard McCarty
PERSON
RECEIVED_FUNDING→
30,000 Canadian dollars
FUNDING_AMOUNT
Surface Form:
"I applied and I got it — 30,000 Canadian dollars"Evidence Source
But Russ convinced me I could apply for money so I applied and I got it — 30,000 Canadian dollars — it seemed like a fortune to me.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
GOT_PHD_IN→
'84
TIME
Surface Form:
"Got my PhD in '84"
Willard McCarty
PERSON
STARTED_WORK_IN→
'85
TIME
Surface Form:
"went to work in '85"Evidence Source
Got my PhD in '84, went to work in '85.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Records of Early English Drama project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"got a job with"
Records of Early English Drama project
PROJECT
HAS_ASSOCIATION_WITH→
King's
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"with which we at King's have now an intimate association"Evidence Source
I got a job with the Records of Early English Drama project, which is still going and with which we at King's have now an intimate association, oddly enough, as a programmer for Ian Lancashire, basically working for him, although later on for other people in the project and working on a DECsystem-10, with an acoustic coupler modem, 300-baud acoustic coupler modem, programming various things for a compilation that he was putting together on English dramatic records.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
HIRED→
young Classicist from Kentucky
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I hired a young Classicist from Kentucky"Evidence Source
I hired a young Classicist from Kentucky, very much an American southerner, who's Latin was very good and who thought very differently than I did.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"was working for the computing centre itself"
micro-computer support group
DEPARTMENT
PART_OF→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"in the micro-computer support group"
micro-computer support group
DEPARTMENT
SERVES_FIELD→
Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"mostly dealt with people in the Humanities"Evidence Source
I then was working for the computing centre itself, in the micro-computer support group, which mostly dealt with people in the Humanities, so again implicitly digital humanities but hardware-focused — Osbornes and Apple 2s, that sort of thing.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
IS_SERVICE_CENTRE_FOR→
humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was a service centre for the humanities"Evidence Source
It was a service centre for the humanities, which is where the academic legitimacy came from.
Willard McCarty
PERSON
DEVELOPED_TECHNOLOGY→
coding system for Ovid's Metamorphoses
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I invented my own coding system"
coding system for Ovid's Metamorphoses
TECHNOLOGY
PRE_DATES→
TEI
STANDARD
Surface Form:
"long before TEI"Evidence Source
So, I was adding codes, and this was this long before TEI, so I invented my own coding system, like everybody else did, but I made sure that it was rigorously consistent so that it could be algorithmically translated into any other coding system.
Russ Wooldridge
PERSON
MEMBER_OF_DEPARTMENT→
French Department
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"in the French Department"Evidence Source
So, Russ Wooldridge, a lexicographer in the French Department convinced me I could apply for money
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
IBM employees
GROUP
HAD_DRESS_CODE→
light blue shirts
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"could wear light blue shirts instead of white shirts"Evidence Source
after then all IBM employees could wear light blue shirts instead of white shirts.
IBM employees
GROUP
HAD_DRESS_CODE→
white shirts
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"had to wear white shirts"Evidence Source
Until Thomas J Watson Jr, I think, had to appear on colour television all IBM employees had to wear white shirts
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
IBM
ORGANISATION
FUNDED_FIELD→
Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"had been pouring money into the Humanities since the early 1960s"Evidence Source
IBM, which had been pouring money into the Humanities since the early 1960s, IBM was very forward thinking, very forward-looking in developing a field that was manifestly not going to do very much of commercial interest but they had lots of money, they were on top of the world, they poured lots of money into the Humanities.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
HAS_ANNUAL_BUDGET→
300,000 Canadian dollars a year
FUNDING_AMOUNT
Surface Form:
"300,000 Canadian dollars a year budget for this little centre"
University of Toronto
INSTITUTION
FUNDED→
Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"300,000 Canadian dollars a year budget for this little centre"Evidence Source
So, the University of Toronto was awash with money, in the 1980s, 300,000 Canadian dollars a year budget for this little centre, which was quite a bit of money then.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
ORGANISATION
SUPPORTS_FIELD→
digital humanities in Canada
FIELD
Surface Form:
"has done a great deal for the digital humanities in Canada"Evidence Source
At that time, and subsequently I think, it has done a great deal for the digital humanities in Canada.
Ovid Metamorphoses project
PROJECT
FUNDED_BY→
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada"Evidence Source
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Steven Parish
PERSON
ATTENDED→
CP Snow's lecture in 1959 in Cambridge
EVENT
Surface Form:
"he went to CP Snow's lecture in 1959 in Cambridge"
CP Snow's two cultures lecture
EVENT
HAS_DATE→
1959
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1959"
CP Snow's two cultures lecture
EVENT
TOOK_PLACE_IN→
Cambridge
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Cambridge"Evidence Source
He says in there that he went to CP Snow's lecture in 1959 in Cambridge, the famous two cultures lecture,
Cold War
TIME_SPAN
OVERLAPS_WITH→
beginning of computing in the humanities and up to the release of the web in '91
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"overlaps, very neatly, the beginning of computing in the humanities and up to the release of the web in '91"Evidence Source
the period of the Cold War, which overlaps, very neatly, the beginning of computing in the humanities and up to the release of the web in '91.
Literary Data Processing Conference
CONFERENCE
SPONSORED_BY→
IBM
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"sponsored by IBM in 1964"
Literary Data Processing Conference
CONFERENCE
HAS_DATE→
1964
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1964"Evidence Source
When Steven Parish gave his summary account of the first conference in our field, sponsored by IBM in 1964, the Literary Data Processing Conference, you have the proceedings of that, I think.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
conference organised by Iacob Choueka in Jerusalem
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZED_BY→
Iacob Choueka
PERSON
Surface Form:
"organised by Iacob Choueka in Jerusalem"Evidence Source
and the conference organised by Iacob Choueka in Jerusalem, the year after, I think.
International Conference for Computers in the Humanities
CONFERENCE
LOCATED_IN→
Columbia, South Carolina
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Columbia, South Caroline"
International Conference for Computers in the Humanities
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZED_BY→
Bob Oakman
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Bob Oakman's conference"
Bob Oakman
PERSON
HAS_POSITION→
Professor of English and Computer Science
ROLE
Surface Form:
"Professor of English and Computer Science"Evidence Source
The International Conference for Computers in the Humanities in Columbia, South Caroline, Bob Oakman's conference, Professor of English and Computer Science,
Humanist
PROJECT
ORIGINATED_FROM→
meeting at International Conference for Computers in the Humanities
EVENT
Surface Form:
"the conference at which the meeting was formed out of which Humanist came"Evidence Source
which is the conference at which the meeting was formed out of which Humanist came
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Willard McCarty
Lloyd Reynolds
PERSON
TAUGHT→
Willard McCarty
PERSON
Surface Form:
"my calligraphy teacher Lloyd Reynolds, who taught me respect for craftsmanship"Evidence Source
and earlier than that, my calligraphy teacher Lloyd Reynolds, who taught me respect for craftsmanship, which has influenced me in all sorts of ways.
Northrop Frye
PERSON
STUDIED_WITH→
Willard McCarty
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the man I went to study with in Toronto"Evidence Source
But on the non-computing side, Northrop Frye above all, I suppose, the man I went to study with in Toronto, my actual doctoral supervisor Jim Carscallan,
Jim Carscallan
PERSON
SUPERVISED_PHD_OF→
Willard McCarty
PERSON
Surface Form:
"my actual doctoral supervisor"Evidence Source
the man I went to study with in Toronto, my actual doctoral supervisor Jim Carscallan,
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
INTERESTED_IN→
computer applications for literary texts
FIELD
Surface Form:
"was interested in computer applications for the work I was doing on literary texts"Evidence Source
But for all that time I was interested in computer applications for the work I was doing on literary texts.
TOPS (Training Opportunities Scheme)
PROGRAMME
PROVIDES_COMMERCIAL_TRAINING_FOR→
young people in the early 1980s
GROUP
Surface Form:
"was a way of getting commercial training for young people in the early 1980s"Evidence Source
I left school at 16 and did a TOPS (Training Opportunities Scheme) training course, which was a way of getting commercial training for young people in the early 1980s.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TOOK_TRAINING_COURSE→
TOPS course in Computer Operating
TRAINING_COURSE
Surface Form:
"took a TOPS course in Computer Operating"Evidence Source
I took a TOPS course in Computer Operating, so I ended up at the age of 17 as a Mainframe Computer Operator
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
LEARNT_PROGRAMMING_FROM→
handbook for the Acorn System 1 micro-processor kit
DOCUMENT
Surface Form:
"learnt assembly language programing from the handbook that came with this little £80 kit"Evidence Source
I wanted to do the programming and I learnt assembly language programing from the handbook that came with this little £80 kit.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
WORKED_AS→
Mainframe Computer Operator (1982–1988)
OCCUPATION
Surface Form:
"worked as a Mainframe Computer Operator from 1982 to 1988"Evidence Source
So I worked as a Mainframe Computer Operator from 1982 to 1988
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TOOK_COURSE→
Computer Science O-level
COURSE
Surface Form:
"took Computer Science"Evidence Source
The first actual hands-on encounter was when I took Computer Science, as it used to be, when there were still O-levelsFootnote1 in the late 1970s.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USED_HOME_COMPUTER→
Sinclair Spectrum
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"having a Sinclair Spectrum"
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USED_HOME_COMPUTER→
Commodore 64 computer
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"having a Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 computer"Evidence Source
Then I went through the usual 1980s route of having a Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 computer.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
Teletype machine with an acoustic coupler and a modem
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"had a Teletype machine with an acoustic coupler and a modem"Evidence Source
We had a Teletype machine with an acoustic coupler and a modem.
Teletype machine with an acoustic coupler and a modem
TECHNOLOGY
CONNECTS_TO→
mainframe at the local polytechnic
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"connected the Teletype to the mainframe"Evidence Source
you put the handset into this fur-lined box, which connected the Teletype to the mainframe.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
OBTAINED_DEGREE_IN→
BA in English Literature
QUALIFICATION
Surface Form:
"did a BA in English Literature"Evidence Source
did a BA in English Literature
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
OBTAINED_DEGREE_IN→
MA in Shakespeare Studies
QUALIFICATION
Surface Form:
"an MA in Shakespeare Studies"
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
OBTAINED_DEGREE_IN→
PhD in Shakespeare Studies
QUALIFICATION
Surface Form:
"a PhD in Shakespeare Studies"Evidence Source
did a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies and a PhD in Shakespeare Studies.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
OBTAINED_QUALIFICATION_IN→
A-levels in English Literature and History
QUALIFICATION
Surface Form:
"got my A-levels in English Literature and History"Evidence Source
so at 23 I went back and got my A-levels in English Literature and History
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USED_DEVICE_FOR_NOTE_TAKING→
Sinclair Z88 portable computer
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"I had a thing called a Sinclair Z88"Evidence Source
I had a thing called a Sinclair Z88.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
COMPLETED_DEGREE_USING_COMPUTER→
BA studies
QUALIFICATION
Surface Form:
"did my BA entirely on a computer"Evidence Source
So I very quickly got computerized I mean I did my BA entirely on a computer.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TOOK_EXAMS_ON_COMPUTER_DUE_TO_DISABILITY→
university examinations for his BA
EVENT
Surface Form:
"I asked if in future I could do my exam on a computer because of this disability. The university agreed"Evidence Source
I had done very well in my essays but I did very poorly in the 3 hour exam and I asked if in future I could do my exam on a computer because of this disability. The university agreed and my grades shot up.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
IDENTIFIES_AS→
book historian
ROLE
Surface Form:
"I say that as a book historian"Evidence Source
I think I’ve had a phobia against paper right from the start. It’s a diabolically bad medium for storing human knowledge in my view and I say that as a book historian.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
DIGITISED_AND_DISCARDED_BOOKS→
several thousand books owned by Gabriel Egan
BOOK_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"digitised all of my several thousand books and destroyed them in the process"Evidence Source
So I digitised all of my several thousand books and destroyed them in the process, but that was okay.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USED_PRINT_SHOP_FOR_SPINE_REMOVAL→
local printing shop with an electrically powered guillotine
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I found a local printing shop that had an electrically powered guillotine and they would machine the spines off for me for 50p a go"Evidence Source
But for doing the 3000 books I found a local printing shop that had an electrically powered guillotine and they would machine the spines off for me for 50p a go.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
DIGITISED_BOOKS_USING_SCANNER→
books converted to bundles of loose leaves and scanned
BOOK_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"cut the spine off so you got a bundle of loose leaves and then put them through a sheet feeding scanner"Evidence Source
Yeah, the fast way to do it is to cut the spine off so you got a bundle of loose leaves and then put them through a sheet feeding scanner.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Stanley Wells
PERSON
USED_WHEN_EDITING→
Norton facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Hinman 1968)
BOOK
Surface Form:
"he used when he was making the Oxford Shakespeare edition of 1986"Evidence Source
It was the one he used when he was making the Oxford Shakespeare edition of 1986
Stanley Wells
PERSON
SUPERVISOR_OF→
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
Surface Form:
"my PhD supervisor, Stanley Wells"Evidence Source
Its only 1968 but the copy I’ve got I was given by my PhD supervisor, Stanley Wells.
Oxford Shakespeare edition of 1986
EDITION
HAS_PUBLICATION_YEAR→
1986
TIME
Surface Form:
"edition of 1986"Evidence Source
the Oxford Shakespeare edition of 1986
Stanley Wells
PERSON
MAIN_EDITOR_OF→
Oxford Shakespeare edition of 1986
EDITION
Surface Form:
"he was the main Editor"Evidence Source
which was a big-deal edition (he was the main Editor; see Wells et al. 1986).
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TEACHES_SKILL→
printing on a sixteenth century hand press
PRACTICE
Surface Form:
"teach students how to print on a sixteenth century hand press"Evidence Source
And I say this as I actually teach students how to print on a sixteenth century hand press.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
STUDIED_IN→
Stratford-Upon-Avon
PLACE
Surface Form:
"doing my Master’s degree in Stratford-Upon-Avon"Evidence Source
I had a friend called Peter White when I was doing my Master’s degree in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
PUBLISHED_ON_CDROM_IN_YEAR→
1989
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1989 the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was published for the first time on CD-ROM"Evidence Source
my fellow students didn’t know that in 1989 the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was published for the first time on CD-ROM, so you could search for words by their meaning, which is the first time you could ever do that.
Peter White
PERSON
EMPLOYED_BY→
ProQuest
COMPANY
Surface Form:
"went on to be ProQuest’s person in charge of EEBO"
Peter White
PERSON
IN_CHARGE_OF→
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
Surface Form:
"went on to be ProQuest’s person in charge of EEBO (Early English Books online)"Evidence Source
The irony is actually Peter then went on to be ProQuest’s person in charge of EEBO (Early English Books online).Footnote4
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan’s wife
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
Queen’s University Belfast
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"doing her undergraduate degree in English at Queen’s University Belfast"Evidence Source
She said that when she was doing her undergraduate degree in English at Queen’s University Belfast
Gabriel Egan’s wife
PERSON
HAS_EXPERTISE_IN→
use of computers in Literary Studies
FIELD
Surface Form:
"has herself become an academic expert in the use of computers in Literary Studies"Evidence Source
Since then she has herself become an academic expert in the use of computers in Literary Studies and finds others’ Ludditism as annoying as I do.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
LEARNT_PROGRAMMING_IN→
machine code
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"I learnt, as I say, machine code programming"Evidence Source
Although, I learnt, as I say, machine code programming, which was 0s and 1s, although the short cut was you didn’t have to put in 0s and 1s, you’d use hexadecimals (base 16)
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USES_COMPUTER_AS_PROSTHESIS_FOR_NOTES→
his notes and intellectual work
INFORMATION_COLLECTION
Surface Form:
"the point of computerizing everything was that everything I’d ever thought was recoverable by me"Evidence Source
So the point of computerizing everything was that everything I’d ever thought was recoverable by me.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Senate House
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Malet Street, London
PLACE
Surface Form:
"Senate House, in Malet Street, in London"Evidence Source
I remember, when I was an undergraduate, I often used to go to Senate House, in Malet Street, in London, to use the library.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TOOK_TRAINING_COURSES_IN→
university library
LIBRARY
Surface Form:
"I took training courses in the library, as a student"Evidence Source
And I did actually, there were actually things I needed to learn about. I took training courses in the library, as a student, so that did happen.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Modern Languages Association International Bibliography (MLA IB)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC_DATABASE
AVAILABLE_DIGITALLY→
digital form of MLA International Bibliography
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
Surface Form:
"is available digitally"Evidence Source
I know the MLA IB is available digitally, how can I get to it
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
WORKS_AS→
lone scholar model
RESEARCH_MODE
Surface Form:
"I’m still largely in the lone scholar model"Evidence Source
I haven’t yet very much encountered that and what I mean by that is, I’m still largely in the lone scholar model.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
ADVISES→
AHRC
FUNDING_BODY
Surface Form:
"I advise the AHRC on how to evaluate the attempts to do certain things"Evidence Source
I advise the AHRC on how to evaluate the attempts to do certain things.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
RUNS_WEBSITE_FOR→
Centre for Textual Studies website
WEBSITE
Surface Form:
"on the university website that I run at De Monfort University, which is the Centre for Textual Studies"Evidence Source
In fact, on the university website that I run at De Monfort University, which is the Centre for Textual Studies,Footnote5 I describe myself as a ‘would-be Digital Humanist’.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
ADVISES_LIBRARIES_ON_DIGITISATION→
various libraries
LIBRARY
Surface Form:
"I’ve advised various libraries on their digitisation projects"Evidence Source
I‘ve advised groups, I’ve advised various libraries on their digitisation projects
Centre for Textual Studies
RESEARCH_CENTRE
PART_OF_INSTITUTION→
De Monfort University
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"at De Monfort University"Evidence Source
on the university website that I run at De Monfort University, which is the Centre for Textual Studies
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
SERVED_ON_COMMITTEES→
committees related to Early English Books Online (EEBO)
COMMITTEE
Surface Form:
"I ended up on a few committees"Evidence Source
Once EEBO became widely established across universities, I sort of made myself available to them and asked, if they were having events, would they be interested in having someone who is a very heavy user of the resource So, I ended up on a few committees, that’s been my way in.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Centre for Textual Studies
RESEARCH_CENTRE
PREVIOUSLY_FOCUSED_ON_CREATING_EDITIONS→
new editions of authors such as Chaucer and Virginia Woolf
PROJECT_TYPE
Surface Form:
"its main work in the past has been making stuff “let’s make an edition of Chaucer, of Virginia Woolfe’s so and so”"Evidence Source
I’ve taken over the centre after about 10 years of its existence and its main work in the past has been making stuff “let’s make an edition of Chaucer, of Virginia Woolfe’s so and so”.
Ray Siemens
PERSON
COMPLETED_PHD_IN_YEAR→
1997
TIME
Surface Form:
"Ray finished his PhD in 1997"
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
COMPLETED_PHD_IN_YEAR→
1997
TIME
Surface Form:
"Ray finished his PhD in 1997, same as me"Evidence Source
Ray finished his PhD in 1997, same as me.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
DIRECTOR_OF→
Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University
RESEARCH_CENTRE
Surface Form:
"I’m Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University"Evidence Source
That’s interesting because it bares directly on my work at the moment, I’m Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
TEI-encoded editions
DIGITAL_TEXT_CORPUS
RARELY_USED_FOR_RESEARCH_QUESTIONS→
answering research questions
RESEARCH_ACTIVITY
Surface Form:
"how many projects do you know out there who really used those TEI-encoded editions to answer a research question"Evidence Source
I mean, the TEI is wonderful as it is, yet how many projects do you know out there who really used those TEI-encoded editions to answer a research question
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
STARTED_WORK_AT_IN_YEAR→
2000
TIME
Surface Form:
"I started there in 2000"Evidence Source
I started there in 2000 and I thought is that actually true
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Globe Theatre in London
THEATRE
Surface Form:
"used to work at the Globe Theatre in London"Evidence Source
Let me give you an example of that when I used to work at the Globe Theatre in London.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
USED_DIGITAL_RESOURCE→
Literature Online
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
Surface Form:
"using Literature Online"Evidence Source
So I went counting, just using Literature Online actually.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Oxford Text Archive
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
PROVIDES_ELECTRONIC_TEXT_OF→
Ben Jonson’s play Bartholomew Fair
PLAY
Surface Form:
"the Oxford Text Archive had a copy"Evidence Source
I found that the Oxford Text ArchiveFootnote8 had a copy, but I had to ask the person who was curating the copy if I could have it.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
MEMBER_OF_PROJECT→
JISC e-books project
PROGRAMME
Surface Form:
"I was on the JISC e-books project"Evidence Source
I was on the JISC e-books project.Footnote7
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Loughborough University
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"I got a job at Loughborough University"Evidence Source
I’ve been a Shakespeare Scholar, I worked at the Globe theatre, and I got a job at Loughborough University.
JISC E-Books working group
WORKING_GROUP
INCLUDED_ACADEMIC_MEMBER→
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I was, I think, one of only two academics on it"Evidence Source
When the E-Books working group started I was, I think, one of only two academics on it.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
SPECIALISES_IN→
Shakespeare and Textual Studies
FIELD
Surface Form:
"my main thing, which is Shakespeare and in my case, at the moment, Textual Studies"Evidence Source
because I’m really, really intent on not getting distracted from my main thing, which is Shakespeare and in my case, at the moment, Textual Studies or what’s been done with the early editions of Shakespeare.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
ATTENDS_CONFERENCE→
Shakespeare Association of America meeting
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"I go to the Shakespeare Association of America meeting"Evidence Source
I go to the Shakespeare Association of America meeting
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
REVIEWS_FOR_CONFERENCE→
big Digital Humanities conference (formerly LLC)
CONFERENCE_SERIES
Surface Form:
"I’ve actually been reading papers for the big DH conference"
big DH conference
CONFERENCE_SERIES
RENAMED_FROM→
LLC
CONFERENCE_SERIES
Surface Form:
"before that it was called the LLC"Evidence Source
I’ve actually been reading papers for the big DH conference and before that it was called the LLC.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Renaissance Society of America
ORGANISATION
HAS_DIGITAL_STRAND→
digital strand in its conference
CONFERENCE_TRACK
Surface Form:
"has a digital strand every year"Evidence Source
The Renaissance Society of America has a digital strand every year.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
The Spanish Tragedy
PLAY
HAS_REVISED_VERSION→
revised version of The Spanish Tragedy
PLAY_VERSION
Surface Form:
"Thomas Kyds’ play the Spanish Tragedy got expanded at some point in its life"Evidence Source
For example Thomas Kyds’ play the Spanish Tragedy got expanded at some point in its life and the latest thinking is that Shakespeare wrote the editions to that.
William Shakespeare
PERSON
POSSIBLY_AUTHORED_ADDITIONS_TO→
revised version of The Spanish Tragedy
PLAY_VERSION
Surface Form:
"the latest thinking is that Shakespeare wrote the editions to that"Evidence Source
the latest thinking is that Shakespeare wrote the editions to that.
revised version of The Spanish Tragedy
PLAY_VERSION
HAS_ADDITIONAL_LINES→
extra 500 lines
QUANTITY
Surface Form:
"these extra 500 lines, to make the revised version of the Spanish Tragedy"Evidence Source
You’ve got these extra 500 lines, to make the revised version of the Spanish Tragedy.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Matt Steggle
PERSON
COMPLETED_PHD_ON_TOPIC→
how Aristotle figures in early modern writing
RESEARCH_TOPIC
Surface Form:
"did his entire PhD on questions about how Aristotle figures in early modern writing"Evidence Source
A friend of mine from Sheffield Hallam University called Matt Steggle told me that he did his entire PhD on questions about how Aristotle figures in early modern writing what is said about Aristotle, how do they think about him
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
COVERS_PUBLICATIONS_UP_TO_YEAR→
1800
TIME
Surface Form:
"with Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), right up to 1800"Evidence Source
and then with Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), right up to 1800.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
PROVIDES_IMAGES_OF→
books published up to the Civil War
CORPUS
Surface Form:
"have pictures of all the books published up to the Civil War"Evidence Source
Anybody who works for a university can have pictures of all the books published up to the Civil War
Literature Online
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
PROVIDES_SEARCHABLE_CORPUS_OF→
poetry, prose and plays
CORPUS
Surface Form:
"give everyone all the poetry, prose and plays and they could search them"Evidence Source
Before that Literature OnlineFootnote10 was a huge deal. We could essentially give everyone all the poetry, prose and plays and they could search them as well.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TEACHES_AT→
De Montfort University
UNIVERSITY
Surface Form:
"about to give a lecture at De Montfort on Christopher Marlowe’s poem Hero and Leander"Evidence Source
I’m about to give a lecture at De Montfort on Christopher Marlowe’s poem Hero and Leander
Christopher Marlowe’s poem Hero and Leander
POEM
HAS_FIRST_EDITION_YEAR→
1598
TIME
Surface Form:
"the first edition of 1598"Evidence Source
I’m about to give a lecture at De Montfort on Christopher Marlowe’s poem Hero and Leander, and I quote in the lecture solely from the first edition of 1598.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
AVAILABLE_ONLINE→
online digital platform
FORMAT
Surface Form:
"OED, being online and digital"Evidence Source
OED, being online and digital, was a huge transformation.
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
DIGITAL_RESOURCE
DIGITISES_MATERIAL_FROM→
early quarto printings of Shakespeare at the British Library, the Bodleian, the Folger in Washington DC, [the National Library of Scotland] and the Huntington Library in California
CORPUS
Surface Form:
"a digitisation of all the early quarto printings of Shakespeare at the British Library, the Bodleian, the Folger in Washington DC, [the National Library of Scotland] and the Huntington Library in California"Evidence Source
Shakespeare Quartos Archive,Footnote11 I regret to say, hasn’t made much difference. This is a digitisation of all the early quarto printings of Shakespeare at the British Library, the Bodleian, the Folger in Washington DC, [the National Library of Scotland] and the Huntington Library in California.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
Donald Foster
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Vassar College
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"a guy called Donald Foster at Vassar College"Evidence Source
a guy called Donald Foster at Vassar College had a new tool he called SHAXICON
Donald Foster
PERSON
DEVELOPED_TOOL→
SHAXICON
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"had a new tool he called SHAXICON"
SHAXICON
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
ANALYSES→
Shakespeare’s writing for authorship attribution
CORPUS
Surface Form:
"was doing those kind of analysis of Shakespeare’s writing"Evidence Source
a guy called Donald Foster at Vassar College had a new tool he called SHAXICON, which was doing those kind of analysis of Shakespeare’s writing.
Zotero
SOFTWARE
IS_FREE_SOFTWARE→
free reference management software
SOFTWARE_CATEGORY
Surface Form:
"free software, like Zotero"Evidence Source
Now we have free software, like Zotero, which is great.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
TEACHES_SKILL→
managing a database of research references
PRACTICE
Surface Form:
"managing a database of your own references is something I teach research students to do"Evidence Source
The point is, managing a database of your own references is something I teach research students to do.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
topographical glass
INSTRUMENT
IS_TYPE_OF→
surveyor’s instrument
INSTRUMENT
Surface Form:
"a topographical glass, a sort of surveyor’s instrument"Evidence Source
He reconstructed the entire construction of this picture with a thing called a topographical glass, a sort of surveyor’s instrument.
John Orrell
PERSON
AUTHORED_BOOK_ANALYSING→
contemporary picture of the Globe Theatre
IMAGE
Surface Form:
"one of the great books that was part of that project was by John Orrell (1983), in which he analysed a contemporary picture of the Globe"Evidence Source
One of the great books that was part of that project was by John Orrell (1983), in which he analysed a contemporary picture of the Globe.
Gabriel Egan
PERSON
RESEARCHED_RECONSTRUCTION_OF→
Globe Theatre reconstruction in London in the mid-1990s
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"was working on attempts to reconstruct the Globe Theatre, including the one that was being built in London in the mid-1990s"Evidence Source
When I was doing my PhD, I was working on attempts to reconstruct the Globe Theatre, including the one that was being built in London in the mid-1990s.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Gabriel Egan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Henriette D. Avram
PERSON
HIRED_BY→
Library of Congress
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"hired"Evidence Source
It was a year later that they hired Henriette D. Avram to come and begin computerising the library
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Library of Congress
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"worked as a searcher/editor for"
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Union Catalog
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"worked as a searcher/editor for"Evidence Source
My first job, after I graduated with a degree in English with a minor concentration in Art, was at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, where I worked as a searcher/editor for the Union Catalog.
Library of Congress
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Washington DC
CITY
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
the Library of Congress in Washington DC
Henriette D. Avram
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
library computerisation
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"begin computerising"Evidence Source
they hired Henriette D. Avram to come and begin computerising the library
Union Catalog
PROJECT
PART_OF→
Library of Congress
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"includes every book that it holds"Evidence Source
Union Catalog is the Library of Congress' huge catalog that includes every book that it holds.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
J. Walter Thompson Company
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"went to work for"Evidence Source
I went to work for, I think it was, the J. Walter Thompson Company
Judy Malloy
PERSON
HAS_START_DATE→
1967
TIME
Surface Form:
"It was around"Evidence Source
I went to work for, I think it was, the J. Walter Thompson Company ... It was around 1967
J. Walter Thompson Company
ORGANISATION
COLLABORATED_WITH→
Goddard Space Flight Center
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"had a contract with"Evidence Source
J. Walter Thompson Company, who had a contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Goddard Space Flight Center library collection
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"catalog the documents and books"Evidence Source
My job there was to catalog the documents and books that were in their collection
Goddard Space Flight Center
INSTITUTION
IMPLEMENTED_PROJECT→
library computerisation
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"computerising"Evidence Source
the Goddard Space Flight Center was computerising their library.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Ball Brothers Research Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"head of a large technical library for"Evidence Source
all of a sudden I was the head of a large technical library for a big aerospace company.
Ball Brothers Research Corporation
ORGANISATION
ALSO_KNOWN_AS→
Ball Aerospace
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"also known as"Evidence Source
Ball Brothers Research Corporation (BBRC; now called Ball Aerospace)
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
FORTRAN
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"programme in"Evidence Source
Essentially I was working with a computer that I had to programme in FORTRAN and so I learnt to programme in FORTRAN.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
HELD_POSITION→
technical librarian
ROLE
Surface Form:
"applied for the position of"Evidence Source
I applied for the position of technical librarian and got it.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
BBRC library computerisation
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"began to computerise"Evidence Source
I dealt with the documents and I'm not sure exactly how it occurred that I began to computerise the library.
Jo Sanford
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Ball Brothers Research Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"worked with me"Evidence Source
I had a woman who worked with me, Jo Sanford, who was also learning to programme.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
LOCATED_IN→
Dürer Platz
PLACE
Surface Form:
"lived in"
Judy Malloy
PERSON
LOCATED_IN→
Nurnberg
CITY
Surface Form:
"lived in"Evidence Source
I lived in Dürer Platz in the old walled City of Nurnberg
Judy Malloy
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Denver's Graduate School of Librarianship
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"took a summer institute at"Evidence Source
I took a summer institute at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Librarianship
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Special Library System
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"worked in"Evidence Source
I worked in the Special Library System in Furth
Special Library System
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Furth
CITY
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
Special Library System in Furth
Ball Brothers Research Corporation
ORGANISATION
MANUFACTURED→
orbiting solar observatory
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"made"Evidence Source
They made the orbiting solar observatory.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
HAS_START_DATE→
1969
TIME
Surface Form:
"it was"Evidence Source
This was not the era of big Computer Science departments, it was 1969
Dan Anderson
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
BBRC computer room
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"ran"Evidence Source
took classes in FORTRAN from Dan Anderson. He ran the computer room and also taught the classes.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Georges Perec
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
Oulipo
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"member of"Evidence Source
Georges Perec (2011), who was a member of the Oulipo
Georges Perec
PERSON
WROTE→
The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise
Concept
Surface Form:
"It's by"Evidence Source
I always use this book, The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise ... It's by Georges Perec
Uncle Roger
PROJECT
BASED_ON→
BBRC programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"played off"Evidence Source
if you look in Uncle Roger, you can see that I played off the programme I wrote for BBRC.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
José Antonio Villarreal
PERSON
WROTE→
The Fifth Horseman
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"writing"Evidence Source
At the time he was writing The Fifth Horseman, which was a story of the Mexican Revolution.
José Antonio Villarreal
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Ball Brothers Research Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"boss at"Evidence Source
my immediate boss at BBRC, and this is kind of interesting, was José Antonio Villarreal
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
ARPANET
TECHNOLOGY
HAS_START_DATE→
1969
TIME
Surface Form:
"beginning of"Evidence Source
1969 was the beginning of ARPANET
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
IBM
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"used"Evidence Source
I think I used a mainframe, I've been trying to research what computer I used. I'm not positive it was a mainframe, I'm pretty sure it was an IBM.
Compatible Time-Sharing System
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
LOCATED_IN→
MIT
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"MIT's"Evidence Source
MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS)
Compatible Time-Sharing System
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_SYSTEM→
MAIL
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"used"Evidence Source
MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) used MAIL to coordinate their research
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Bell Labs
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
New Jersey
PLACE
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
Bell Labs in New Jersey
Nancy Kaplan
PERSON
SPOUSE_OF→
Stuart Moulthrop
PERSON
Surface Form:
"who's his wife"Evidence Source
Nancy Kaplan, who's his wife.
Dan Anderson
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
computer room
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"ran"Evidence Source
So I had to go find Dan Anderson (who ran the computer room)
Stuart Moulthrop
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
Pathfinders interview
EVENT
Surface Form:
"telling the story to"Evidence Source
when I was telling the story to Stuart Moulthrop during the Pathfinders interview
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy
PERSON
STARTED_ACTIVITY→
1976
TIME
Surface Form:
"it was"Evidence Source
I began to have this vision that I could create a non-sequential narrative using catalog cards ... it was 1976 when I started doing this.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USED_SOFTWARE→
Visidex
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"used"Evidence Source
I used the early Apple II programme called Visidex.
Radio Shack
ORGANISATION
MANUFACTURED→
electromechanical address books
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"made"Evidence Source
In those days, Radio Shack made these electromechanical address books
JR Carpenter
PERSON
CREATED→
City Fish
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"'s"Evidence Source
JR Carpenter's City Fish
Judy Malloy
PERSON
HAS_START_DATE→
1986
TIME
Surface Form:
"first time I used computers since I left BBRC"Evidence Source
So this was the first time I used computers since I left BBRC in 1969, and it was 1986.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
Apple II
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"bought"Evidence Source
we went and bought a used Apple II
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Richard M Dougherty
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
University of Michigan
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"went to"Evidence Source
He also went to the University of Michigan and worked on computerising that catalog
Richard M Dougherty
PERSON
TAUGHT→
Systems Analysis
FIELD
Surface Form:
"Professor of"Evidence Source
I didn't mention that the Professor of the Systems Analysis course I took was Richard M Dougherty
Willard McCarty
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
McCarty et al. 2012
EVENT
Surface Form:
"interview"Evidence Source
reading Willard McCarty's interview (McCarty et al. 2012)
Richard M Dougherty
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
UC Berkeley
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Head Librarian at"Evidence Source
Richard M Dougherty, who went on to be the Head Librarian at UC Berkeley
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Jo Sanford
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Ball Brothers Research Corporation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"My colleague"Evidence Source
My colleague, Jo Sanford and I were the only women using the computer room.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy
PERSON
MEMBER_OF→
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"community on"Evidence Source
community on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (see, for example, Rheingold 2000; Turner 2010) was very helpful.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
CREATED→
Uncle Roger
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"programmed"
Uncle Roger
PROJECT
IMPLEMENTED_WITH→
Unix Shell scripts
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
I also programmed Uncle Roger in Unix Shell scripts
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USED_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE→
BASIC
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"started using"Evidence Source
When I started using BASIC, which was hugely easier to use
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Art Com Electronic Network
ORGANISATION
ALSO_KNOWN_AS→
ACEN
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"(ACEN)"Evidence Source
Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN)
Judy Malloy
PERSON
CREATED→
Bad Information Base no 1
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"making"Evidence Source
because he had seen the database I was making (Bad Information Base no 1).
Carl Loeffler
PERSON
INITIATED_PROJECT→
ACEN publishing system
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"initiated"
Fred Truck
PERSON
PROGRAMMED→
ACEN publishing system
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"programmed"Evidence Source
Carl Loeffler initiated and Fred Truck programmed a system and menu where the works could actually be published.
Fred Truck
PERSON
LOCATED_IN→
Iowa
PLACE
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
Fred Truck in Iowa
Carl Loeffler
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Art Com/La Mamelle
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"founding director of"Evidence Source
he was the founding director of Art Com/La Mamelle
Carl Loeffler
PERSON
DIRECTED→
Art Com Electronic Network
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"director of"Evidence Source
he was the founding director of Art Com/La Mamelle and then of Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN)
Judy Malloy
PERSON
PUBLISHED→
Uncle Roger
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"published"Evidence Source
It was how I first published Uncle Roger
Fortner Anderson
PERSON
LOCATED_IN→
Canada
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
talk to spoken word poet Fortner Anderson in Canada
The WELL
ORGANISATION
HOSTED→
ACEN
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"gave access"Evidence Source
The WELL gave ACEN direct access to the server
The WELL
ORGANISATION
USED_SOFTWARE→
PicoSpan
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"used"Evidence Source
the WELL used the conferencing software PicoSpan
Uncle Roger
PROJECT
HOSTED_ON→
The WELL's VAX
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"housed in"Evidence Source
The works themselves, and in my case the programs I wrote that ran them, were housed in The WELL's VAX.
Jim Rosenberg
PERSON
LOCATED_IN→
Pennsylvania
PLACE
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
to Jim Rosenberg in Pennsylvania
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Inform 7
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
ENTITY_TYPE→
application
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"application"Evidence Source
I think a good application, like Inform 7 or Storyspace
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USES_TECHNOLOGY→
HTML
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"using"
Judy Malloy
PERSON
USES_TECHNOLOGY→
JavaScript
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"using"Evidence Source
I'm using HTML or JavaScript
Storyspace
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
ENTITY_TYPE→
application
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"application"Evidence Source
Storyspace, for example, was a wonderful application
Julianne Nyhan
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Judy Malloy
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Julianne Nyhan
Defining Digital Humanities: a Reader
PROJECT
HAS_PUBLICATION_DATE→
2013
TIME
Surface Form:
"2013"Evidence Source
Defining Digital Humanities: a Reader (Terras et al. 2013)
Julianne Nyhan
PERSON
CO_EDITED→
Defining Digital Humanities: a Reader
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"published"Evidence Source
my colleagues and I published a book called Defining Digital Humanities: a Reader (Terras et al. 2013).
Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Fred Truck
PERSON
FORMATTED→
First Meeting of the Satie Society
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"formatted"Evidence Source
Fred formatted it
John Cage
PERSON
CREATED→
Silence
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"done"Evidence Source
he had done Silence
Silence
PROJECT
HAS_CREATION_DATE→
1952
TIME
Surface Form:
"in about"Evidence Source
in about 1952, when he had done Silence
John Cage
PERSON
PUBLISHED→
First Meeting of the Satie Society
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"published"Evidence Source
John Cage, who, in 1986 or 1987, I'm not sure which, published a work on Art Com, called the First Meeting of the Satie Society
First Meeting of the Satie Society
PROJECT
PUBLISHED_ON→
Art Com
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"work on"Evidence Source
published a work on Art Com, called the First Meeting of the Satie Society
Robert Coover
PERSON
WROTE_FOR→
New York Times
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"wrote a series of articles for"Evidence Source
Robert Coover (1992) wrote a series of articles for the New York Times
Silence
PROJECT
ALSO_KNOWN_AS→
4′33″
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"officially called"Evidence Source
Silence (officially called 4′33″
Julianne Nyhan
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Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
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Judy Malloy
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Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
CADRE
ORGANISATION
PART_OF→
San Jose State
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at"Evidence Source
CADRE) at San Jose State
NCGA Conference
EVENT
HOSTED_BY→
CADRE
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"hosted by"Evidence Source
hosted by the Computers in Art and Design, Research and Education Institute (CADRE)
Howard Besser
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Museum Computer Network
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"connected more with"Evidence Source
Howard Besser was there also and he is actually connected more with the Museum Computer Network.
Judy Malloy
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
Art and Telecommunications panel
EVENT
Surface Form:
"invited to be on"Evidence Source
I was invited to be on the Art and Telecommunications panel
Jeanelle Hurst
PERSON
LOCATED_IN→
Australia
COUNTRY
Surface Form:
"from"Evidence Source
Jeanelle Hurst (from Australia)
Carl Loeffler
PERSON
ORGANIZED→
Art and Telecommunications panel
EVENT
Surface Form:
"organized"Evidence Source
on the Art and Telecommunications panel, organized by Carl Loeffler
NCGA Conference
EVENT
LOCATED_IN→
San Jose State University
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"took place in"Evidence Source
the NCGA Conference that took place in San Jose State University.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
John Cage
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
David Tudor
PERSON
Surface Form:
"created a work"Evidence Source
He and David Tudor created a work where Cage read those stories in one room
John Cage
PERSON
CREATED→
Interdeterminacy
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"created"Evidence Source
Many of the works he's done have been influential on my work, I'm thinking of his Interdeterminacy.
Sonya Rapoport
PERSON
WAS_BORN_IN→
1923
TIME
Surface Form:
"(1923"Evidence Source
Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015)
Sonya Rapoport
PERSON
DIED_IN→
2015
TIME
Surface Form:
"died"Evidence Source
Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015), who just died this June
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Michael Joyce
PERSON
CREATED→
Storyspace
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"worked on"Evidence Source
He picked up Storyspace from Michael Joyce, and the other people who worked on it
Objects on my Dresser
PROJECT
LOCATED_IN→
80 Langton Street
PLACE
Surface Form:
"at"Evidence Source
I went to an installation at 80 Langton Street called 'Objects on my Dresser'.
Objects on my Dresser
PROJECT
HAS_START_DATE→
1980
TIME
Surface Form:
"in"Evidence Source
I went to an installation at 80 Langton Street called 'Objects on my Dresser'. ... I think, in 1980 or 1981
Mark Bernstein
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Eastgate
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"chief Scientist at"Evidence Source
Mark Bernstein (chief Scientist at Eastgate, one of the leading publishers of hypertext)
Sonya Rapoport
PERSON
CREATED→
Objects on my Dresser
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"created"Evidence Source
She had created a work where she had taken the objects on her dresser, I think, and written texts about each object. ... 'Objects on my Dresser'
Sonya Rapoport
PERSON
CREATED→
Shoe Field
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"did another work called"Evidence Source
Then she did another work called Shoe Field
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Judy Malloy
Judy Malloy
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
Princeton
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"visiting lecturer job at"Evidence Source
I just had a wonderful 2 year visiting lecturer job at Princeton.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
customs house
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"worked at"Evidence Source
Nathaniel Hawthorne worked at a customs house.
TS Eliot
PERSON
WORKED_AT→
a bank
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"worked at"Evidence Source
TS Eliot, worked at a bank
Julianne Nyhan
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Judy Malloy
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
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Judy Malloy
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Willard McCarty
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Burrows
John Lambert
PERSON
DIRECTS→
our Computing Service
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"the Director of our Computing Service"Evidence Source
and I went downstairs to the Director of our Computing Service, John Lambert,Footnote2 and asked him if any of this could be computerised.
John Burrows
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH→
John Lambert
PERSON
Surface Form:
"we worked right on from there"Evidence Source
He responded with great interest and enthusiasm and we worked right on from there.
John Lambert
PERSON
INTRODUCED_SOFTWARE→
COCOA
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"told me about COCOA (Russell 1965), the software program of the day for text management and preparation"
COCOA
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_FOR→
text management and preparation
METHOD
Surface Form:
"the software program of the day for text management and preparation"Evidence Source
He told me about COCOA (Russell 1965), the software program of the day for text management and preparation.
John Burrows
PERSON
HAS_EARLIEST_COMPUTING_EXPERIENCE_DATE→
1979
TIME
Surface Form:
"It was 1979"Evidence Source
It was 1979. I’d been card-indexing examples of tolerably common words (or frequent words) in Jane Austen’s novels.
John Burrows
PERSON
ANALYSED→
Jane Austen’s novels
WORK
Surface Form:
"I’d been card-indexing examples of tolerably common words (or frequent words) in"Evidence Source
I’d been card-indexing examples of tolerably common words (or frequent words) in Jane Austen’s novels.
Hugh Craig
Hugh Craig
PERSON
HAS_EARLIEST_COMPUTING_TECHNOLOGY→
Remington word processor
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"A Remington word processor that we had in the faculty was my first contact"
Remington word processor
TECHNOLOGY
LOCATED_IN→
the faculty
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"that we had in the faculty"Evidence Source
A Remington word processor that we had in the faculty was my first contact.
John Burrows
PERSON
HELD_POSITION→
Dean
POSITION
Surface Form:
"you were Dean"
Hugh Craig
PERSON
WAS_PUT_IN_CHARGE_OF→
Remington word processor project
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"you put me in charge of that project"Evidence Source
Remember [to JB], you were Dean and you put me in charge of that project.
Remington word processor project
PROJECT
HAS_START_TIME_SPAN→
early 1980s
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"That was in the early 1980s"Evidence Source
That was in the early 1980s, so that was our first bit of word processing technology.
John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
Hugh Craig
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Ben Jonson’s additions to the Spanish Tragedy
RESEARCH_TOPIC
Surface Form:
"I was working on a problem on"Evidence Source
I was working on a problem on Ben Jonson’s additions to the Spanish Tragedy
John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hugh Craig
Hugh Craig
PERSON
USED_CORPUS_OF→
six Shakespeare plays and six Jonson plays
TEXT_CORPUS
Surface Form:
"I had maybe six Shakespeare plays and six Jonson plays"Evidence Source
I had maybe six Shakespeare plays and six Jonson plays
Hugh Craig
PERSON
CONDUCTED_FIRST_COMPARATIVE_STUDY_IN→
1988
TIME
Surface Form:
"did my first comparison in 1988"Evidence Source
I know that I did my first comparison in 1988.
Hugh Craig
PERSON
PREPARED_TEXT_OF→
Hamlet
WORK
Surface Form:
"I prepared Hamlet for that study in 1988"Evidence Source
I prepared Hamlet for that study in 1988
Hugh Craig
PERSON
BUILT_CORPUS_SIZE→
approximately 225 plays
TEXT_CORPUS
Surface Form:
"I’ve just been able to keep building it up to, I don’t know, 225 plays or whatever"Evidence Source
In my case, I’ve just been able to keep building it up to, I don’t know, 225 plays or whatever.
Hugh Craig
PERSON
REUSED_TEXT_FREQUENTLY→
Hamlet
WORK
Surface Form:
"I’ve probably used it at least every week since then – that same text over and over again"Evidence Source
I’ve probably used it at least every week since then – that same text over and over again.
John Burrows
John Dawson
PERSON
HOLDS_POSITION_AT→
Cambridge University Literary and Linguistic Computer Centre
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"the Manager of Cambridge University Literary and Linguistic Computer Centre"Evidence Source
had the good fortune to meet John Dawson [the Manager of Cambridge University Literary and Linguistic Computer Centre].
Dawson’s center in Cambridge
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
Cambridge
CITY
Surface Form:
"Dawson’s center in Cambridge"
Hockey’s center in Oxford
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
Oxford
CITY
Surface Form:
"Hockey’s center in Oxford"Evidence Source
So, between Dawson’s center in Cambridge and Hockey’s center in Oxford, I was doing a lot of criss-cross travelling in the course of that year
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ASSOCIATED_WITH→
Oxford University Computing Services
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"was told about Susan Hockey (see Chap. 6) and the work in Oxford University Computing Services"Evidence Source
was told about Susan Hockey (see Chap. 6) and the work in Oxford University Computing Services.
John Burrows
John Lambert
PERSON
RETIRED_FROM_POSITION→
Director of Computing Services
POSITION
Surface Form:
"retired from his post as Director of Computing Services"Evidence Source
by 2001 he had been retired from his post as Director of Computing Services for 6 or 8 years.
LILAC
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
DESIGNED_BY→
John Lambert
PERSON
Surface Form:
"The prototype software that he designed for us called LILAC (Literature, Language, Computing)"
LILAC
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
HAS_EXPANDED_NAME→
Literature, Language, Computing
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"LILAC (Literature, Language, Computing)"
John Burrows
PERSON
USES_SOFTWARE_DAILY→
LILAC
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"I use every day still"Evidence Source
The prototype software that he designed for us called LILAC (Literature, Language, Computing) I use every day still.
John Lambert
PERSON
WORKED_AS→
programmer in our center
POSITION
Surface Form:
"he became our programmer in our center"Evidence Source
To amuse himself, and to earn a bit of money on the side, he became our programmer in our center.
Hugh Craig
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Burrows
Annette Dobson
PERSON
HOLDS_POSITION→
Professor of Statistics
POSITION
Surface Form:
"our Professor of Statistics"Evidence Source
I got a great deal of support from our Professor of Statistics, Annette Dobson, who was sympathetic to my ignorance and stupidity.
Hugh Craig
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
METHOD
USED_FOR→
exploratory multivariate analysis
METHOD
Surface Form:
"a beautiful way of combining the multivariate (combining all those different variables in an exploratory way) and letting the data speak for itself"Evidence Source
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was just the key, wasn’t it? It was a beautiful way of combining the multivariate (combining all those different variables in an exploratory way) and letting the data speak for itself.
John Burrows
Nick McLaren
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Cambridge Computing Laboratory
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"in the Cambridge Computing Laboratory"Evidence Source
Nick McLaren in the Cambridge Computing Laboratory.
Hugh Craig
function words
CONCEPT
WERE_CONSIDERED_AS→
empty words or stock words
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"they were empty words, or stock words, you know, classically"Evidence Source
Nobody thought that function words would give you anything because every one used them at the same rate and they were empty words, or stock words, you know, classically.
John Burrows
John Burrows
PERSON
APPLIED_COMPUTING_TO_ANALYSE→
function words (and, of, the)
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Once I got it into the computer setup I was able to explore what did happen to and and, of and the"Evidence Source
Once I got it into the computer setup I was able to explore what did happen to and and, of and the.
Hugh Craig
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
METHOD
IS_COMBINED_WITH→
function words
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"PCA somehow went beautifully with function words"
John Burrows
PERSON
USED_METHOD_COMBINATION→
function words plus PCA
METHOD
Surface Form:
"John’s winning hand, function words plus PCA"Evidence Source
Then PCA somehow went beautifully with function words; that was John’s winning hand, function words plus PCA.
John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
function words
CONCEPT
DESCRIBED_AS→
the very fabric of language
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"they’re like the very fabric of language"Evidence Source
but then you come back to function words: they’re abundant, they’ve got a good distribution … they’re like the very fabric of language, aren’t they?
John Burrows
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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Hugh Craig
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Burrows
John Burrows
PERSON
HAS_PRIMARY_DISCIPLINE→
literature
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"we never really wanted to do anything other than study literature"Evidence Source
I think we’re fortunate that we never really wanted to do anything other than study literature; all of the other things were ancillary to that.
John Burrows
Erich Auerbach
PERSON
AUTHORED→
Mimesis
WORK
Surface Form:
"Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis"Evidence Source
I was also enormously impressed by Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis
Wolfgang Clemen
PERSON
AUTHORED_WORK_ON→
Shakespeare’s imagery
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"on Shakespeare’s imagery"Evidence Source
I was enormously impressed by Wolfgang Clemen (1977) on Shakespeare’s imagery.
Mimesis
WORK
WAS_WRITTEN_IN→
Istanbul
CITY
Surface Form:
"written by a refugee in Istanbul I think it was, during the war"
Mimesis
WORK
WAS_WRITTEN_DURING→
the war
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"during the war"Evidence Source
partly because of the way in which it was written by a refugee in Istanbul I think it was, during the war, quite without a proper library.
John Burrows
Reuben Arthur Brower
PERSON
AUTHORED→
Fields of Light
WORK
Surface Form:
"Reuben Arthur Brower’s Fields of Light (1951)"
Fields of Light
WORK
HAS_PUBLICATION_YEAR→
1951
TIME
Surface Form:
"(1951)"Evidence Source
Reuben Arthur Brower’s Fields of Light (1951), was terribly important to me, you know.
Hugh Craig
Stephen Greenblatt
PERSON
ASSOCIATED_WITH→
New Historicism
FIELD
Surface Form:
"New Historicism in our own area – that is, the renaissance area – people like Stephen Greenblatt"Evidence Source
But I was very influenced by New Historicism in our own area – that is, the renaissance area – people like Stephen Greenblatt and so-called Cultural Poetics, which is a good broadening from close reading.
G. K. Hunter
PERSON
AUTHORED→
a literary history of renaissance English
WORK
Surface Form:
"who did a literary history of renaissance English"Evidence Source
We had a really nice visit from George Hunter, G. K. Hunter, who did a literary history of renaissance English, you know.
John Burrows
John Burrows
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCES_WITH→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"conferences with people like Susan Hockey and Paul Fortier"
John Burrows
PERSON
ATTENDED_CONFERENCES_WITH→
Paul Fortier
PERSON
Surface Form:
"conferences with people like Susan Hockey and Paul Fortier"Evidence Source
I did learn a lot in the late 1980s and 1990s at conferences with people like Susan Hockey and Paul Fortier.
John Burrows
Paul Butler
PERSON
WAS_DEPUTY_OF→
John Lambert
PERSON
Surface Form:
"his deputy Paul Butler"Evidence Source
I’d go down and talk to him, or his deputy Paul Butler was helpful at times
Hugh Craig
Alexis Antonia
PERSON
WORKED_AS→
Linguist helping with preparing texts
POSITION
Surface Form:
"a Linguist, to help with preparing texts"Evidence Source
We had Alexis Antonia already there as a wonderfully patient person, and a Linguist, to help with preparing texts.
John Burrows
John Burrows
PERSON
FOUND_IMPORTANT_JOURNAL→
Literary and Linguistic Computing
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"The journals that were important were Literary and Linguistic Computing particularly"Evidence Source
The journals that were important were Literary and Linguistic Computing particularly
John Burrows
PERSON
FOUND_IMPORTANT_JOURNAL→
Computing in the Humanities
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"but Computing in the Humanities as well"Evidence Source
The journals that were important were Literary and Linguistic Computing particularly but Computing in the Humanities as well.
John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hugh Craig
Anne Barton
PERSON
SPECIALISED_IN→
Ben Jonson scholarship
FIELD
Surface Form:
"who was a very good Ben Jonson scholar"
Anne Barton
PERSON
WAS_BASED_IN→
Cambridge
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Cambridge"Evidence Source
Another great question came from Anne Barton (who was a very good Ben Jonson scholar) in Cambridge.
Hugh Craig
PERSON
COLLABORATED_WITH_ON_PCA→
Hugh Craig’s father
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I worked with him doing some PCAs"
Hugh Craig’s father
PERSON
HAS_PROFESSION→
mathematician
FIELD
Surface Form:
"my father is a good mathematician"Evidence Source
Yes my father is a good mathematician and so I worked with him doing some PCAs.
John Burrows
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Burrows
AULLA conference in Adelaide (Australian branch of the MLA)
CONFERENCE
HELD_IN→
Adelaide
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Adelaide"
AULLA conference in Adelaide (Australian branch of the MLA)
CONFERENCE
HAS_DATE→
1974
TIME
Surface Form:
"in 1974"Evidence Source
I gave a paper to a conference in Adelaide, the Australian branch of the MLA, AULLA in 1974
John Burrows
PERSON
HELD_ACADEMIC_POSITIONS→
Head of Department and Dean
POSITION
Surface Form:
"I was Head of Department a lot of that time, and then Dean"Evidence Source
It was very arduous – I was Head of Department a lot of that time, and then Dean.
John Burrows
PERSON
FIRST_OVERSEAS_CONFERENCE_ATTENDED→
ACH/ ALLC conference in San Francisco
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"Overseas conferences for me, in this field I mean, began in San Francisco in what must have been 1981 at the big ACH/ ALLC conference of that year"
ACH/ ALLC conference in San Francisco
CONFERENCE
HELD_IN→
San Francisco
CITY
Surface Form:
"in San Francisco"
ACH/ ALLC conference in San Francisco
CONFERENCE
HAS_DATE_APPROX→
1981
TIME
Surface Form:
"what must have been 1981"Evidence Source
Overseas conferences for me, in this field I mean, began in San Francisco in what must have been 1981 at the big ACH/ ALLC conference of that year.
John Burrows
PERSON
PRESENTED_PAPER_AT→
AULLA conference in Adelaide (Australian branch of the MLA)
CONFERENCE
Surface Form:
"I gave a paper to a conference in Adelaide, the Australian branch of the MLA, AULLA in 1974"Evidence Source
Well, I gave a paper to a conference in Adelaide, the Australian branch of the MLA, AULLA in 1974
John Burrows
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Harold Short
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Burrows
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Harold Short
No extractions found for this utterance.
John Burrows
No extractions found for this utterance.
Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
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Hugh Craig
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John Burrows
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung programming course
COURSE
Surface Form:
"had your first contact with computing as a participant of the programming course Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung (non-numeric data processing) at the Deutsches Rechenzentrum (German Computing Center) in Darmstadt"
Deutsches Rechenzentrum
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Darmstadt
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Darmstadt"
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
HAS_FIRST_COMPUTING_CONTACT_IN→
1966
TIME
Surface Form:
"In 1966 you had your first contact with computing"Evidence Source
In 1966 you had your first contact with computing as a participant of the programming course Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung (non-numeric data processing) at the Deutsches Rechenzentrum (German Computing Center) in Darmstadt.
Wilhelm Ott
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
HAS_DOCTORATE_IN→
Theology
DISCIPLINE
Surface Form:
"had been busy studying Theology and had completed a doctorate in it"Evidence Source
I had been busy studying Theology and had completed a doctorate in it.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
STARTED_SECOND_STUDY_IN→
Classics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"had started a second study in Classics"Evidence Source
I knew that I would not earn my living from Theology and so I had started a second study in Classics.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
STUDIED_AT→
University of Munich
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"at the University of Munich (where I was studying Classics)"
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
STUDIED_FIELD→
Classics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"where I was studying Classics"Evidence Source
In 1966 I noticed an announcement on a notice board at the University of Munich (where I was studying Classics) that the Deutsches Rechenzentrum Footnote1 was offering programming courses that were also available to Humanities people.
Deutsches Rechenzentrum
INSTITUTION
OFFERED_COURSES_FOR→
Humanities people
GROUP
Surface Form:
"was offering programming courses that were also available to Humanities people"Evidence Source
that the Deutsches Rechenzentrum Footnote1 was offering programming courses that were also available to Humanities people.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Hexameter analysis program for Vergil’s Aeneid
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
DEVELOPED_BY→
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I tried to design a program to automatically compile the metrical characteristics which Norden had collected in the appendix to his commentary. It worked"Evidence Source
I tried to design a program to automatically compile the metrical characteristics which Norden had collected in the appendix to his commentary. It worked, and it was my first experience of thinking about the application of computers to the Humanities.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
USED_COMPUTERS→
IBM 7090 and IBM 7094
COMPUTER_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"In Darmstadt I had worked on an IBM 7090, and later a 7094"Evidence Source
In Darmstadt I had worked on an IBM 7090, and later a 7094.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
RESEARCHED→
New Testament
TEXT
Surface Form:
"had worked on the New Testament and the differences on the teaching on prayer between the gospels"Evidence Source
In Theology I had worked on the New Testament and the differences on the teaching on prayer between the gospels (Ott 1965).
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
APPLIED_COMPUTERS_TO→
Humanities
FIELD
Surface Form:
"my first experience of thinking about the application of computers to the Humanities"Evidence Source
It worked, and it was my first experience of thinking about the application of computers to the Humanities.
Eduard Norden’s Commentary on Book VI of the Aeneid
PUBLICATION
AUTHORED_BY→
Eduard Norden
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Eduard Norden’s Commentary on Book VI of the Aeneid (1957)"Evidence Source
since I had learned from Eduard Norden’s Commentary on Book VI of the Aeneid (1957) how important it was to also pay attention to the “pictorial elements” of the hexameter when interpreting the poem
Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung programming course
COURSE
TAUGHT_LANGUAGE→
Assembler
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"The first part of the coursework was in Assembler"Evidence Source
The first part of the coursework was in Assembler, this means working very near to the hardware of the machine.
Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung programming course
COURSE
TAUGHT_LANGUAGE→
FORTRAN
PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"The second part was in FORTRAN, using a set of sub-routines for character and string handling that the Darmstadt group had just developed"
Darmstadt group
RESEARCH_GROUP
DEVELOPED→
FORTRAN sub-routines for character and string handling
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"a set of sub-routines for character and string handling that the Darmstadt group had just developed"Evidence Source
The second part was in FORTRAN, using a set of sub-routines for character and string handling that the Darmstadt group had just developed, because FORTRAN, at that time, did not even have a CHARACTER statement.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
WORKED_ON→
Vergil’s Aeneid
WORK
Surface Form:
"was working on Vergil’s Aeneid, an epic poem written in dactylic hexameters"Evidence Source
Therefore, since I was working on Vergil’s Aeneid, an epic poem written in dactylic hexameters, and since I had learned from Eduard Norden’s Commentary on Book VI of the Aeneid (1957) how important it was to also pay attention to the “pictorial elements” of the hexameter when interpreting the poem, I tried to design a program to automatically compile the metrical characteristics which Norden had collected in the appendix to his commentary.
Nichtnumerische Datenverarbeitung programming course
COURSE
HAS_START_DATE→
spring 1966
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"started the programming course in the spring of 1966"Evidence Source
When I started the programming course in the spring of 1966 it was relatively early times for Humanities Computing.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
STARTED_POSITION→
Research Officer for computer applications in the Humanities at the Computing Center of the University of Tübingen
POSITION
Surface Form:
"became Research Officer (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter) for computer applications in the Humanities in the Computing Center at the University of Tübingen"
Research Officer for computer applications in the Humanities at the Computing Center of the University of Tübingen
POSITION
HAS_START_DATE→
1966
TIME
Surface Form:
"In 1966 you became Research Officer"
Computing Center at the University of Tübingen
INSTITUTION
PART_OF→
University of Tübingen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Computing Center at the University of Tübingen"Evidence Source
In 1966 you became Research Officer (Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter) for computer applications in the Humanities in the Computing Center at the University of Tübingen.
Wilhelm Ott
Edition of the Mishna
PROJECT
ORIGINATED_FROM→
Institute of Hebrew Studies at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"a further project came from the Institute of Hebrew Studies at the University of Tübingen, an edition of the Mishna by Michael Krupp"
Edition of the Mishna
PROJECT
LED_BY→
Michael Krupp
PERSON
Surface Form:
"an edition of the Mishna by Michael Krupp"Evidence Source
And, at the same time, a further project came from the Institute of Hebrew Studies at the University of Tübingen, an edition of the Mishna by Michael Krupp.
Kurt Aland
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
University of Münster
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Prof. Kurt Aland from the University of Münster"Evidence Source
Another large project also came from outside Tübingen. Prof. Kurt Aland from the University of Münster wanted to prepare a new critical edition of the New Testament
Dr Hübner
PERSON
EMPLOYED_BY→
IBM Germany
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Dr Hübner of IBM in Sindelfingen"
Dr Hübner
PERSON
FORMER_MEMBER_OF→
Classics Department at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"had also been a member of the Classics Department in Tübingen before he went to IBM"Evidence Source
I had contacted Dr Hübner of IBM in Sindelfingen who had also been a member of the Classics Department in Tübingen before he went to IBM.
Index to the Theologische Quartalschrift
PROJECT
HAS_TIME_SPAN→
1895–1970
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"In 1969, one of the larger projects was an index to 75 volumes (1895–1970) of the Theologische Quartalschrift"
Index to the Theologische Quartalschrift
PROJECT
STARTED_IN→
1969
TIME
Surface Form:
"In 1969, one of the larger projects was an index"Evidence Source
In 1969, one of the larger projects was an index to 75 volumes (1895–1970) of the Theologische Quartalschrift.
TUSTEP typesetting programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_WITH→
Digiset digital typesetter
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"the TUSTEP typesetting programme (see below) was working. It was one of the first typesetting routines that could make up whole pages on a Digiset (the first digital typesetter)"Evidence Source
In the meantime the TUSTEP typesetting programme (see below) was working. It was one of the first typesetting routines that could make up whole pages on a Digiset (the first digital typesetter).
Concordance to the Vulgate
PROJECT
FUNDED_BY→
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
FUNDING_AGENCY
Surface Form:
"a great project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)"Evidence Source
It was the concordance to the Vulgate, the Latin Bible, by Father Bonifatius Fischer (1977), a great project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Concordance to the Vulgate
PROJECT
EDITED_BY→
Bonifatius Fischer
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the concordance to the Vulgate, the Latin Bible, by Father Bonifatius Fischer (1977)"Evidence Source
One of the first projects that came was from outside the university. It was the concordance to the Vulgate, the Latin Bible, by Father Bonifatius Fischer (1977), a great project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Kurt Aland
PERSON
LED_PROJECT→
New critical edition of the New Testament
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"wanted to prepare a new critical edition of the New Testament"Evidence Source
Prof. Kurt Aland from the University of Münster wanted to prepare a new critical edition of the New Testament
Index and edition of the works of Heinrich Kaufringer
PROJECT
STARTED_IN→
1970
TIME
Surface Form:
"Then in 1970, an index to the works of the middle-high German poet Heinrich Kaufringer was to be made"
Index and edition of the works of Heinrich Kaufringer
PROJECT
LED_BY→
Paul Sappler
PERSON
Surface Form:
"was to be made by Paul Sappler of the German Department"
Paul Sappler
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
German Department at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"Paul Sappler of the German Department"Evidence Source
Then in 1970, an index to the works of the middle-high German poet Heinrich Kaufringer was to be made by Paul Sappler of the German Department.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
CONTINUED_STUDIES_AT→
Classics Department at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"went to the Classics Department in Tübingen University where I continued my studies"Evidence Source
Therefore, I went to the Classics Department in Tübingen University where I continued my studies and showed them what I was working on to see whether they were interested.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
HIRED_BY→
Computing Center at the University of Tübingen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Therefore, they hired me, and the first thing I had to do was to continue my hexameter project"Evidence Source
They saw the chance that in these circumstances they could also get advice for Humanities applications because I was a Humanist with a doctorate and I had proven that I had also some knowledge of computing. Therefore, they hired me, and the first thing I had to do was to continue my hexameter project but, of course, to also give advice and make it available to other interested people from the Humanities.
Julianne Nyhan
Bonifatius Fischer
PERSON
WAS_PUT_IN_CONTACT_WITH→
Father Busa
PERSON
Surface Form:
"you put him in contact with Busa regarding lemmatisation"Evidence Source
I know you put him in contact with Busa regarding lemmatisation.
Wilhelm Ott
Lexicon Electronicum Latinum (LEL)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
AUTHORED_BY→
Father Busa
PERSON
Surface Form:
"his Lexicon Electronicum Latinum (LEL), as he called it"Evidence Source
And so I contacted Father Busa in Gallarate, or in Pisa, where he had just moved to, and asked him if he could give us a copy of his Lexicon Electronicum Latinum (LEL), as he called it.
Lexicon Electronicum Latinum (LEL)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_AS_BASIS_FOR→
Lemmatisation of the Vulgate concordance
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we took it as a basis for the lemmatisation"
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
VISITED→
Father Busa
PERSON
Surface Form:
"I visited him in Pisa"Evidence Source
I visited him in Pisa and he generously gave us his lexicon and we took it as a basis for the lemmatisation.
New edition of the Vulgate used for the concordance
TEXT
EDITED_BY→
Bonifatius Fischer
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the new edition which he had just finished, together with Robert Weber"
New edition of the Vulgate used for the concordance
TEXT
EDITED_BY→
Robert Weber
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the new edition which he had just finished, together with Robert Weber"Evidence Source
The edition for which the concordance was planned was the new edition which he had just finished, together with Robert Weber.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Digiset typesetter
TECHNOLOGY
PRODUCED_BY→
Hell company in Kiel
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Digiset was produced by the Hell company in Kiel"
Digiset typesetter
TECHNOLOGY
FIRST_OF_TYPE→
cathode ray tube typesetter
TECHNOLOGY_TYPE
Surface Form:
"was the first cathode ray tube typesetter"
Digiset typesetter
TECHNOLOGY
MARKETED_AS→
VideoComp by RCA Corporation
PRODUCT_NAME
Surface Form:
"in the States it was marketed as VideoComp by RCA Corporation"Evidence Source
Digiset was produced by the Hell company in Kiel and was the first cathode ray tube typesetter (see, for example, Sassoon 1993, p.76, 78, 88); in the States it was marketed as VideoComp by RCA Corporation.
Monastery of Benedictine nuns in Kempen on the Rhine
INSTITUTION
PERFORMED_LEMMATISATION_FOR→
Concordance to the Vulgate
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"Fischer had engaged a monastery of Benedictine nuns in Kempen on the Rhine"Evidence Source
For this work Fischer had engaged a monastery of Benedictine nuns in Kempen on the Rhine.
Lux Bildstudio
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
Neu-Isenburg
CITY
Surface Form:
"Lux Bildstudio in Neu-Isenburg"
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
CONTACTED→
Lux Bildstudio
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"I got in contact with Lux Bildstudio in Neu-Isenburg"Evidence Source
I got in contact with Lux Bildstudio in Neu-Isenburg and then I tried to prepare a programme so that this typesetter could be used for the publication of our data.
Mittelbayerische Zeitung printing house
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
Regensburg
CITY
Surface Form:
"the printing house of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung (a newspaper publisher) in Regensburg"Evidence Source
Indeed, due to a hint from Dr Hübner of IBM, the first contact that I had in this context was with the printing house of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung (a newspaper publisher) in Regensburg, who had a Linotype driven by paper tape.
Mittelbayerische Zeitung printing house
ORGANISATION
USED_TECHNOLOGY→
Linotype driven by paper tape
TECHNOLOGY
Surface Form:
"had a Linotype driven by paper tape"Evidence Source
the printing house of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung (a newspaper publisher) in Regensburg, who had a Linotype driven by paper tape.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Hyphenation of German programme for the Linotype typesetter
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
WRITTEN_BY→
Dr Hübner
PERSON
Surface Form:
"He had just written the hyphenation of German programme for the Linotype typesetter"Evidence Source
He had just written the hyphenation of German programme for the Linotype typesetter.
Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes
INSTITUTION
LOCATED_IN→
Liege
CITY
Surface Form:
"in Liege"Evidence Source
I contacted Professor Louis Delatte of the Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes in LiegeFootnote6 relatively early in July 1966.
Stephen Waite
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Dartmouth College
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Stephen Waite (of Dartmouth College)"
Stephen Waite
PERSON
EDITED→
Calculi
PERIODICAL
Surface Form:
"had been editing Calculi, his bi-monthly periodical for computer applications in the Classics since 1967"Evidence Source
I don’t remember the first contact that I had with Stephen Waite (of Dartmouth College), who had been editing Calculi, his bi-monthly periodical for computer applications in the Classics since 1967.
Antonio Zampolli
PERSON
ASSISTANT_OF→
Father Busa
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Antonio Zampolli (his assistant at that time)"Evidence Source
I visited him and Antonio Zampolli (his assistant at that time) in July of 1967.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
PARTICIPATED_IN→
Cambridge humanities computing conference (1970)
EVENT
Surface Form:
"In fact, I was the only German participant there"
Susan Hockey
PERSON
ATTENDED→
Cambridge humanities computing conference (1970)
EVENT
Surface Form:
"through it I made contacts with other important people, for example, Susan Hockey"Evidence Source
In fact, I was the only German participant there and through it I made contacts with other important people, for example, Susan Hockey.
FIEC 1969 conference in Bonn
EVENT
LOCATED_IN→
Bonn
CITY
Surface Form:
"a large conference of La Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques (FIEC) in Bonn"Evidence Source
In September 1969, there was a large conference of La Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques (FIEC) in Bonn.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
PRESENTED_PAPER_AT→
FIEC 1969 conference in Bonn
EVENT
Surface Form:
"they also asked me to give a report on my hexameter project"Evidence Source
It had about 800 participants, and they also asked me to give a report on my hexameter project (Ott 1969)
Roy Wisbey
PERSON
ORGANISED→
Cambridge humanities computing conference (1970)
EVENT
Surface Form:
"a conference Professor Roy Wisbey was organising in Cambridge"
Cambridge humanities computing conference (1970)
EVENT
LOCATED_IN→
Cambridge
CITY
Surface Form:
"organising in Cambridge"Evidence Source
Just about 4 years after my appointment to the Computing Center, in 1970, I heard of a conference Professor Roy Wisbey was organising in Cambridge.
David Packard
PERSON
FOUNDED→
Packard Foundation
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"who later founded the Packard Foundation"Evidence Source
on this occasion, I came into contact with, for example, David Packard, who later founded the Packard Foundation.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
PUBLISHED_PAPER_IN→
Revue of the Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes
JOURNAL
Surface Form:
"in the last number of the Revue of 1966, I had the first paper on my computer-aided hexameter studies"Evidence Source
So, in fact, in the last number of the Revue of 1966, I had the first paper on my computer-aided hexameter studies (Ott 1966).
Calculi
PERIODICAL
FOCUSES_ON→
computer applications in the Classics
FIELD
Surface Form:
"bi-monthly periodical for computer applications in the Classics"Evidence Source
Stephen Waite (of Dartmouth College), who had been editing Calculi, his bi-monthly periodical for computer applications in the Classics since 1967.
Frommann-Holzboog
ORGANISATION
LOCATED_IN→
Stuttgart
CITY
Surface Form:
"the publisher Frommann-Holzboog in Stuttgart"Evidence Source
The contact with Father Fischer also came about via the publisher Frommann-Holzboog in Stuttgart.
Louis Delatte
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Professor Louis Delatte of the Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes in Liege"Evidence Source
There were also some people outside of Germany. I contacted Professor Louis Delatte of the Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes in LiegeFootnote6 relatively early in July 1966.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing)
ORGANISATION
HAS_INTERNATIONAL_SCOPE→
international institution
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"when the ALLC was subsequently founded it was not as a national British institution but as an international one"Evidence Source
I am convinced that my presence there was also important because when the ALLC was subsequently founded it was not as a national British institution but as an international one.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Professor Lenders of Bonn
PERSON
GERMAN_REPRESENTATIVE_OF→
ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"Professor Lenders of BonnFootnote8 was proposed for this"
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
REPRESENTATIVE_OF→
Specialist group on textual editing techniques (ALLC)
GROUP
Surface Form:
"they asked me to be the representative for a specialist group on textual editing techniques"Evidence Source
So, Professor Lenders of BonnFootnote8 was proposed for this and they asked me to be the representative for a specialist group on textual editing techniques.
Edinburgh ALLC-related conference (1972)
EVENT
LOCATED_IN→
Edinburgh
CITY
Surface Form:
"There was a second conference in Edinburgh in 1972"
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
PRESENTED_PAPER_AT→
Edinburgh ALLC-related conference (1972)
EVENT
Surface Form:
"where I was also present and gave a paper"Evidence Source
There was a second conference in Edinburgh in 1972, before the founding of the ALLC and after the Cambridge conference where I was also present and gave a paper (see Ott 1973).
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
FOUNDED→
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"In 1973 you co-founded pagina GmbH"
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
HAS_FOUNDING_DATE→
1973
TIME
Surface Form:
"In 1973 you co-founded pagina GmbH"Evidence Source
In 1973 you co-founded pagina GmbH, Footnote9 so I’d like to hear about how it was that the idea for a commercial company came about?
Wilhelm Ott
Wolfgang Reiner
PERSON
FOUNDED→
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"He got in contact with me and proposed to make this service available commercially for typesetting in publishing houses. We decided to found the firm pagina"Evidence Source
He got in contact with me and proposed to make this service available commercially for typesetting in publishing houses. We decided to found the firm pagina (pagina is a Latin word for the page).
Edition of the works of Kaufringer
PROJECT
PUBLISHED_BY→
Niemeyer
PUBLISHER
Surface Form:
"the edition of the works of Kaufringer by Paul Sappler, which was to be published by Niemeyer"Evidence Source
One of the other earliest projects to use this typesetting program was the edition of the works of Kaufringer by Paul Sappler, which was to be published by Niemeyer.
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
SPECIALISES_IN→
typesetting for publishers in the Humanities
SERVICE
Surface Form:
"it was a typesetting firm for, more or less, publishers in the Humanities"Evidence Source
So we founded pagina: the name comes from the ready-made pages we created, and it was a typesetting firm for, more or less, publishers in the Humanities, because Niemeyer was, of course, also in this field.
Pagina typesetting programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
FIRST_TO_PROVIDE→
complete page make-up including page numbering and running heads
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"The programme I had made was the first programme, as far as I know, that did not only provide hyphenation and line breaks but also complete page make-up, including page numbering, running heads and so on"Evidence Source
The programme I had made was the first programme, as far as I know, that did not only provide hyphenation and line breaks but also complete page make-up, including page numbering, running heads and so on.
Wolfgang Reiner
PERSON
TECHNICAL_PRODUCTION_MANAGER_OF→
Niemeyer
PUBLISHER
Surface Form:
"The technical production manager of Niemeyer, Wolfgang Reiner"Evidence Source
The technical production manager of Niemeyer, Wolfgang Reiner, saw it just as he was looking for a replacement for hot metal typesetting.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Digital Humanities division at pagina GmbH
DEPARTMENT
PROVIDES_ADVICE_TO→
Humanities Computing projects
PROJECT_TYPE
Surface Form:
"it’s also giving advice to Humanities Computing projects from transcription to collation and so on"Evidence Source
and it’s also giving advice to Humanities Computing projects from transcription to collation and so on.
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
BUSINESS_AREA_SINCE→
publishing technologies
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Nowadays (and since 2011) it is “publishing technologies”"Evidence Source
Nowadays (and since 2011) it is “publishing technologies”, including online publications and e-book publications, workflows for publishing houses, the introduction of XML technologies and so on.
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
HAS_BUSINESS_AREA→
Elektronische Satzherstellung (electronic typesetting)
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"The first business area of pagina, used as a supplement to the name of the firm, was Elektronische Satzherstellung (electronic typesetting)"Evidence Source
The first business area of pagina, used as a supplement to the name of the firm, was Elektronische Satzherstellung (electronic typesetting)
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
CHANGED_BUSINESS_AREA_TO→
Gesamtherstellung Wissenschaftlicher Werke (overall production of scholarly works)
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"and later, in 1966, it was changed to Gesamtherstellung Wissenschaftlicher Werke (overall production of scholarly works)"Evidence Source
The first business area of pagina, used as a supplement to the name of the firm, was Elektronische Satzherstellung (electronic typesetting) and later, in 1966, it was changed to Gesamtherstellung Wissenschaftlicher Werke (overall production of scholarly works).
pagina GmbH
ORGANISATION
HAS_DIVISION→
Digital Humanities division at pagina GmbH
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"pagina in the meantime has also established an Abteilung (a division) called Digital Humanities"Evidence Source
Typesetting is only a tiny part of it, but pagina in the meantime has also established an Abteilung (a division) called Digital Humanities
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
TUSTEP (Tübingen System of Text Processing Programmes)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
WAS_NAMED→
TUSTEP
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"we baptised it, and called it Tübingen System of Text Processing Programmes, TUSTEP"Evidence Source
and in 1978, when the child had some maturity, we baptised it, and called it Tübingen System of Text Processing Programmes, TUSTEP.
COCOA concordance programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
PROVIDED_BY→
ATLAS in Great Britain
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"COCOA, the word count and concordance programme provided by ATLAS in Great Britain"Evidence Source
One of them was COCOA, the word count and concordance programme provided by ATLAS in Great Britain,
COCOA concordance programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
BASIS_FOR→
Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"which later was the basis for the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)"Evidence Source
One of them was COCOA, the word count and concordance programme provided by ATLAS in Great Britain, which later was the basis for the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) by Susan Hockey and Ian Marriot.
Gottfried Reeg
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
FU Berlin
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"Gottfried Reeg (from 1984 at FU Berlin)"Evidence Source
Paul Sappler, and Gottfried Reeg (from 1984 at FU Berlin) started with those tools and programmed by themselves.
COBAPH concordance programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
LOCATED_AT→
Regensburg
CITY
Surface Form:
"a further programme in Regensburg COBAPH (COBOL basic programmes for Philology), which also produced concordances"Evidence Source
There was a further programme in Regensburg COBAPH (COBOL basic programmes for Philology), which also produced concordances,
Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
DEVELOPED_BY→
Susan Hockey
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) by Susan Hockey and Ian Marriot"
Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
DEVELOPED_BY→
Ian Marriot
PERSON
Surface Form:
"Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) by Susan Hockey and Ian Marriot"Evidence Source
which later was the basis for the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) by Susan Hockey and Ian Marriot.
Julianne Nyhan
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
ORGANISED→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"From 1973 until 2004 you organised the Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswisschenschaften an der Universität Tübingen"
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
HAS_TIME_SPAN→
1973–2004
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"From 1973 until 2004"Evidence Source
From 1973 until 2004 you organised the Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswisschenschaften an der Universität Tübingen.
Wilhelm Ott
Father Busa
PERSON
SPOKE_AT→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"One of the most prominent speakers was Father Busa, in 1990"
Colloquium ‘Maschinelle Methoden der literarischen Analyse und der Lexikographie’
EVENT
HELD_IN→
Tübingen
CITY
Surface Form:
"the colloquium on ‘Maschinelle Methoden der literarischen Analyse und der Lexikographie’ in Tübingen in 1960"Evidence Source
One of the most prominent speakers was Father Busa, in 1990, exactly 30 years – to the day – after he co-opened the colloquium on ‘Maschinelle Methoden der literarischen Analyse und der Lexikographie’ in Tübingen in 1960.
Harold Short
PERSON
SPOKE_AT→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"Harold Short, on 18th of November, 2000"Evidence Source
Other speakers included Harold Short, on 18th of November, 2000 on ‘The Role of Humanities computing: experiences and challenges’.
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
HAS_START_DATE→
1973
TIME
Surface Form:
"The colloquia started in 1973"
ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing)
ORGANISATION
HAS_FOUNDING_DATE_APPROX→
around 1973
TIME_SPAN
Surface Form:
"this was also the time when ALLC was founded"Evidence Source
The colloquia started in 1973 and this was also the time when ALLC was founded.
John Unsworth
PERSON
SPOKE_AT→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"The last speaker on 5 February 2005 was John Unsworth"Evidence Source
The last speaker on 5 February 2005 was John Unsworth on the ‘Importance of digitisation and cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities’.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Leibniz edition project
PROJECT
LED_BY→
Professor Schepers from Münster
PERSON
Surface Form:
"the Leibniz edition by Professor Schepers from Münster"Evidence Source
Detailed reports of larger projects, for example, the Leibniz edition by Professor Schepers from Münster influenced other people in their work.
Susan Hockey
PERSON
SPOKE_AT→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"Susan Hockey was here in December 1998"Evidence Source
I’m just going reading over the list of participants. Susan Hockey was here in December 1998; David Seaman in February 1999; Michael Sperberg-McQueen in 1995; Jean-Louis Lebrave in 1986; Johann Cook from Stellenbosch in 1986; Michael Krupp from Jerusalem in 1977 …
Johann Cook
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Stellenbosch
CITY
Surface Form:
"Johann Cook from Stellenbosch in 1986"
Michael Krupp
PERSON
AFFILIATED_WITH→
Jerusalem
CITY
Surface Form:
"Michael Krupp from Jerusalem in 1977"Evidence Source
Jean-Louis Lebrave in 1986; Johann Cook from Stellenbosch in 1986; Michael Krupp from Jerusalem in 1977 …
David Seaman
PERSON
SPOKE_AT→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"David Seaman in February 1999"
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
PERSON
SPOKE_AT→
Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften (University of Tübingen)
EVENT_SERIES
Surface Form:
"Michael Sperberg-McQueen in 1995"Evidence Source
Susan Hockey was here in December 1998; David Seaman in February 1999; Michael Sperberg-McQueen in 1995; Jean-Louis Lebrave in 1986; Johann Cook from Stellenbosch in 1986; Michael Krupp from Jerusalem in 1977 …
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing)
ORGANISATION
MERGED_WITH→
ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities)
ORGANISATION
Surface Form:
"when ALLC merged with ACH"Evidence Source
I had visited all of the early ALLC conferences and when ALLC merged with ACH I decided to go there every second year only.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
HONORARY_PROFESSOR_AT→
University of Tübingen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the University of Tübingen gave me this title"Evidence Source
and only shortly afterwards, a year or so later, the University of Tübingen gave me this title in order to give more weight to a project we had started in Tübingen.
University of Tübingen
INSTITUTION
LEADING_IN_FIELD→
Wissenschaftliche Textdatenverarbeitung (scholarly text data processing)
FIELD
Surface Form:
"In Tübingen we were leading in Wissenschaftliche Textdatenverarbeitung (scholarly text data processing)"Evidence Source
In Tübingen we were leading in Wissenschaftliche Textdatenverarbeitung (scholarly text data processing) and this was the context in which I got the second professorship.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
HONORARY_PROFESSOR_AT→
University of Würzburg
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"the first honorary professorship I got was in Würzburg, at the university"
University of Würzburg
INSTITUTION
ESTABLISHED_COURSE_IN→
Humanities Computing
FIELD
Surface Form:
"they had established a course for Humanities Computing"Evidence Source
Well, the first honorary professorship I got was in Würzburg, at the university, because they had established a course for Humanities Computing, and they wanted to have a Professor on their list.
Wilhelm Ott
PERSON
HELD_POSITION→
Vice-Director of the computing center
POSITION
Surface Form:
"I was also the vice-Director of the computing center"Evidence Source
Well, there was a lot of administrative work with the other position I had, especially since I was also the vice-Director of the computing center.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Physics Department at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
LENT_POSITION_TO→
Computing Center at the University of Tübingen
INSTITUTION
Surface Form:
"The Physics Department had a post that was then free and they lent this post to the computing center for a year"Evidence Source
The Physics Department had a post that was then free and they lent this post to the computing center for a year.
Ernst Zinn
PERSON
PROFESSOR_OF→
Classical Philology at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"Prof Ernst Zinn and Prof Wolfgang Schadewaldt"
Wolfgang Schadewaldt
PERSON
PROFESSOR_OF→
Classical Philology at the University of Tübingen
DEPARTMENT
Surface Form:
"Prof Ernst Zinn and Prof Wolfgang Schadewaldt"Evidence Source
When I started in Tübingen in 1966 the Professors of Classical Philology (Prof Ernst Zinn and Prof Wolfgang Schadewaldt) asked the computing center to create a post (that I would fill) in order to give support to the Humanities.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
Incunabula catalogue at the University of Tübingen
PROJECT
RUNS_ON→
TUSTEP server at the University of Tübingen
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"the Incunabula catalogue is still based on a TUSTEP server in the background"Evidence Source
At the University of Tübingen the Incunabula catalogue is still based on a TUSTEP server in the background.
TUSTEP software
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_FOR→
documentation
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"It is not only for textual documents, but also for documentation"Evidence Source
It is not only for textual documents, but also for documentation.
Library catalogues
PROJECT_TYPE
CREATED_WITH→
TUSTEP tools
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"Many library catalogues have also been made with the tools we provided"Evidence Source
Many library catalogues have also been made with the tools we provided.
TUSTEP software
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_FOR→
analysis, editing and indexing of textual documents
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"Our TUSTEP software is more or less a set of tools for single works and it is also for development and for the analysis, editing and indexing of textual documents"Evidence Source
Our TUSTEP software is more or less a set of tools for single works and it is also for development and for the analysis, editing and indexing of textual documents.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
No extractions found for this utterance.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.
Wilhelm Ott
TUSTEP typesetting programme
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
FIRST_TO_TYPESSET_XML→
XML-encoded documents with stylesheet-based typesetting
CONCEPT
Surface Form:
"the TUSTEP typesetting programme is the first one I know of that is able to typeset documents with XML encoding and to provide a stylesheet for typesetting them"Evidence Source
For example, the TUSTEP typesetting programme is the first one I know of that is able to typeset documents with XML encoding and to provide a stylesheet for typesetting them.
English translation of the TUSTEP manual
DOCUMENT
COMPLETED_IN→
1989
TIME
Surface Form:
"In 1989 we had an English translation of the manual done"
Forschungsschwerpunkt funding for TUSTEP
PROGRAMME
ENDED_IN→
1989
TIME
Surface Form:
"all the funding of the Forschungschwerpunkt (mentioned above) had ceased in 1989"Evidence Source
In 1989 we had an English translation of the manual done but this is now out of date and we did not have the means to continue this work because all the funding of the Forschungschwerpunkt (mentioned above) had ceased in 1989.
TXSTEP
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_IN→
Faust edition in Frankfurt
PROJECT
Surface Form:
"we have one user for it, working on the Faust edition in Frankfurt"Evidence Source
In the meantime we have one user for it, working on the Faust edition in Frankfurt.
TUSTEP documentation
DOCUMENTATION
HAS_LANGUAGE→
German
LANGUAGE
Surface Form:
"the language of documentation: it’s in German only"Evidence Source
One factor is the language of documentation: it’s in German only.
TXSTEP
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
IS_INTERFACE_FOR→
TUSTEP programmes
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
Surface Form:
"an interface to the TUSTEP programmes in an XML environment. It’s called TXSTEP"Evidence Source
Therefore, for some years we have been working on an interface to the TUSTEP programmes in an XML environment. It’s called TXSTEP, we just changed the ‘u’ in TUSTEP to an ‘x’.
TXSTEP
SOFTWARE_SYSTEM
USED_FOR→
collating the sources of the Faust material
METHOD
Surface Form:
"They are using it especially for collating the sources of the Faust material"Evidence Source
They are using it especially for collating the sources of the Faust material.
Julianne Nyhan
No extractions found for this utterance.